[IP] bits bytes?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:25:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Wiggins <wiggins@msu.edu>
Subject: Re: [IP] Growth of the Internet May Take Nothing Short of a Revolution
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>


Dave,

I thought perhaps Professor Zhang also proposed a revolution in
measuring data communications speeds, switching from bits to bytes.
However, his press release at CMU states that his goal is
100 megabits/second for 100 million homes.  Megabits, not megabytes.

http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/031120/031120_rewire.html

Odd that Gomes' article was off by a factor of 8 and it's being
reprinted by other papers and forwarded online with no one noticing.

/rich

>Portals
> From the Wall Street Journal --
>
>Growth of the Internet May Take Nothing Short of a Revolution
>by Lee Gomes
>
>A new and crucial chapter in the history of the Internet began last week.
>Expect all sorts of evolution vs. revolution battles before the chapter is
>finally written.
>
>Starting Tuesday, researchers from four big universities and other
>research outfits gathered on the Carnegie-Mellon campus in Pittsburgh for
>the initial planning session of the "100 by 100" consortium. With a $7.5
>million grant from the National Science Foundation, the group is spending
>the coming few years thinking about how to improve the Internet so that
>100 million U.S. homes can have everyday speeds of 100 megabytes a second.

..

>Most people think that improving network speeds is a simple matter of
>installing faster pipes. But Prof. Hui Zhang, the Carnegie Mellon
>computer-science professor who heads the consortium, says even with
>so-called fat pipes everywhere, today's Internet might not "scale up."
> 

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