[ih] Arpanet line speed

[Dave Crocker]

On 1/18/2017 6:59 AM, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> By the time I came on board in '79, almost all of the links were 56
> Kbps, with a few 9.6 Kbps links here and there. The 50 Kbps links had
> been replaced by that point.
>


My recollection is that all the initial lines (for some years) were the 
same, 50Kbps, speed, to keep the overall system dynamics simpler, and 
that 9.6 lines were only allowed much later.  Might have been by 79, though.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
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