On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:57 +1300, neil gardner wrote:
We have a few dslams here for testing but they're been used for real work right now.
Anyone _know_ what the effect will be?
Reducing the serialisation rate will increase the latency of any communication medium. This is a fairly fundamental fact. A slower serialisation rate will take longer to get the bits onto the wire, and they will take longer to travel down the wire, both of which increase the latency of the link. Although the following paper has a much broader focus that just the effect of serialisation delay, it does show that serialisation delays have a large effect on the latency of layer 2 links. Ravi S. Prasad and Constantinos Dovrolis and Bruce A. Mah, The Effect of Layer-2 Store-and-Forward Devices on Per-Hop Capacity Estimation, http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/574528.html -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM: +64 21 611 544