[ih] Better-than-Best Effort

[Bob Purvy]

"Perhaps packet switching has outlived its usefulness?   With so much
bandwidth, and so much computing power, setting up a circuit might now
be better than moving packets?"

I could say "Vint Cerf is spinning in his grave" but last I checked he's
not dead.

This is an interesting idea. I don't know where you go with it, but it's
interesting.


On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 4:10 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Perhaps packet switching has outlived its usefulness?   With so much
> bandwidth, and so much computing power, setting up a circuit might now
> be better than moving packets?
>
> It's somewhat akin to the advent of cheap computers killing timesharing
> as PCs became dominant.
>
> Surely that thought will cause a ruckus here!
>
> /Jack
>
>
> On 8/27/21 3:51 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> > As long as queuing theory holds and glass fibres are cheap, I am not sure
> > much is going to change.
>
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