[e2e] Does congestion control belong to The TransportLayer?

Ping Pan pingpan at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Apr 26 22:23:46 PDT 2004


Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> Ping,
> 
> Could you explain a little, please?
> 
> I've read your message three or four times, and each reading still
> suggests that you'd developed a Gig-E interface for a SONET switch;
> whilst being unaware of certain elementary aspects of the behaviour of
> current, commercial, off-the-shelf, Gig-E.  (Specifically, of 802.3x.)
> 

Where can I get the "commercial", "off-the-shelf" GigE ports that run at 
line rate on 20G line-cards on a core switch?

> I must be missing something. Could you please fill in a little of the
> background of this project, so the missing pieces become more apparent?
> 

Supercomm in the summer. Ciena booth. (Shameless selling ;-))

- Ping

> thanks,
> --Jonathan



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