Hans,
I tend to agree. In fact I have seen delays upwards of 800 ms. In the
absence of measured delays, we should be prepared to deal with delays
greater than the 500-540 ms text books like to quote.
Regards,
Chuck
At 01:58 PM 11/10/97 -0500, Hans Kruse wrote:
>At 10:27 -0800 11/10/97, Jon Mansey wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Please excuse a newbie question, but where does the 0.6 derive from in
>>these calcs? Is it the latency introduce by the trip up and back to the
>>satellite? If so it seems rather high, my calcs give me more like 250ms.
>
>It is the _round-trip_ delay. That means twice up and back, plus any
>equipment (buffer, routers) delays. We typically measure 560ms round-trip
>delays on ACTS at T1 rates.
>
>
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