Re: types of traffic in tcp congest control

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

Anumita Biswas wrote:
> Can the arguments about disk drives, memory capacity be really extended
> to core, highly shared Internet links? Has the provisioning of core
> links ever exceeded the rate at which the number of internet users are
> increasing. 
> 
> Also, should we not also consider the "bandwidth" of the core
> routers/switches, that is the rate at which their ability to
> route/switch packets is increasing versus the rate at which they are
> pumped with packets? Can that ability be overprovisioned quickly
> enough?

How much of what a user perceives as congestion is core? At least some 
is related to the user's access or webserver load.

Consider the telephone network - it is basically overprovisioned at the 
core. Excepting Mothers' Day and the like, the core doesn't experience 
congestion per se. At least not much anymore.

Joe