[Tmrg] TCP evaluation suite round-table

[Lachlan Andrew]

Greetings again,

On 20/08/07, Lachlan Andrew <lachlan.andrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> As basic goals, I'd like to come away from the roundtable with:
> - a set of bandwidths that are of interest, say 10, 155, 622, 2500 Mbps
>
> I think some of those will be "easy", and we can sort them out on the
> list before an interactive meeting, to save time for more debatable
> ones.

To try my hypothesis, I think that bandwidths should be easy to agree
on on-list.

Obvious candidates are:
10 Mbit/s  -- old Ethernet, the right ball-part for current ADSL/cable
54Mbit/s -- 802.11a/g
100Mbit/s  -- Fast Ethernet
155Mbit/s  -- OC3/STM-1
400Mbit/s  -- used by Doug and Injong's Dummynet studies (IIRC)
622Mbit/s -- OC12/STM-4
1000Mbit/s -- GbE
2488Mbit/s -- OC48/STM-16
9952Mbit/s -- OC192/STM-64
10Gbit/s -- 10GbE

Can we assume that Moore's law now allows Dummynet to run at
622Mbit/s?  If so, I'd strike 400Mbit/s off in favour of OC12.

With my WAN-in-Lab hat on, I'd vote for GbE, OC48 and 10GbE, since we
have those.

Can we agree on using

10Mbit/s
100Mbit/s
622Mbit/s
1000Mbit/s
2488Mbit/s
10Gbit/s

in all simulations/experiments, unless there is a reason to deviate?

Cheers,
Lachlan


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