Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MITRE.ARPA!mckee From: mckee@MITRE.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: GOSIP vs TCP/IP Message-ID: <8703241359.AA07821@mitre.ARPA> Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 08:59:50 EST Article-I.D.: mitre.8703241359.AA07821 Posted: Tue Mar 24 08:59:50 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Mar-87 07:44:23 EST References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Lines: 17 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa The reply from Steve Silverman to Dennis Perry concerning the cost of, and traffic over, Telenet follows: *** Reply to note of 03/22/87 12:28 From: Steve Silverman Subject: Re: GOSIP vs TCP/IP Response to Dennis Perry: In 1983 the Telenet public network cost in the neighborhood of 85 - 100 million dollars/year. This included development, PAD support, and interest on debt. About a year ago the Telenet public net handled about 1.5 billion user data packets /month. This does not include layer 3RR packets, which would be the equivalent of TCP acknowledgments, retransmittals of dropped packets, or network maintenance (GGP packets). * * Steve