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@Article{Fluckiger:1991:MGP,
author = "F. Fluckiger",
title = "From Megabit to Gigabit: possible transition
scenarios",
journal = j-COMP-NET-ISDN,
volume = "23",
number = "1--3",
pages = "129--138",
month = Nov,
year = "1991",
CODEN = "CNISE9",
ISSN = "0169-7552 (print), 1879-2324 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0169-7552",
bibdate = "Sat Sep 25 15:30:02 1999",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/bibliography/Distributed/networks.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/compnetisdn.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
journal-URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01697552",
memo = "The paper deals with the transition from current
Mbit/s international networking to the future Gbit/s
style. CERN need to transmit 6Tb of High Energy Physics
(HEP) data to a remote site; over a continuously
running T1 line, this would take 7 years. Most of the
current international capacity is in lots of low speed
links. Only 5 European international Mbit/s links are
in operation today. TCP/IP has 71.97% of the 11.1Mbit/s
bandwidth at CERN, DECNet has 13.47%, SNA has 10.4% and
X.25 has 4.16%. Synchronous TDM is the bearer
technology of choice today as it supports data, audio
and video and provides good management information. Raw
bandwidth does not equal speed; an Ethernet backbone
can have lower latency than an FDDI one running 10
times as fast. The author claims that ATM is CONS
oriented. Results are given of FDDI vs Ultranet to show
how different network technology can let the same host
hardware transmit at widely varying speeds.",
references = "Refs: 8",
where = "None",
}