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Rick
matthew halsey wrote:
> I'm sorry to hear that.
> Have you used a satellite link recently?
> Our (INTELSAT) links sometimes don't have a single error for a year, and I'm
> sure our competition offers similar quality.
> I would be interested to know the specifics of your experience.
>
> Matt Halsey
> INTELSAT
> -------------
> Original Text
> >From TELFORD0@SMTPGATE {[email protected]}, on 17/6/98 7:21 PM:
> To: AGARWAL@SMTPGATE {[email protected]}, 00@SMTPGATE {[email protected]},
> TCP-OVER@SMTPGATE {[email protected]}
> Cc: TELFORD0@SMTPGATE {[email protected]}, BODZIA@SMTPGATE {[email protected]},
> NADIA@SMTPGATE {[email protected]}
>
> In a message dated 6/17/98 3:54:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > One more factor that affects performance is congestion (this
> > is true for terrestrial Internet links, as well). Presumably
> > if you have routers that can provide guaranteed QoS to voice traffic,
> > perhaps based on RSVP, then performance wont degrade under congestion
> > (we haven't tried this yet).
>
> In my experience satellite links are still among the noisiest with
> which one must deal in computer networking situations.
>
> The concept of reserving bandwidth or guaranteeing delay
> via RSVP is one of the silliest to grace the IETF (and
> a lot of silly ideas appear in the IETF forum viz
> <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Telford001/#CLASS">"Who is Telford?"</A>).
>
> But I cannot imagine taking bandwidth or latency reservations
> seriously in the context of noisy links.
>
> Joachim Martillo
> <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Telford001/">Telford Tools, Inc.</A>
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