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Speed match buffers. Jim Warner UC Santa Cruz February 2010. Solution searching for problem. Campus 10G connection in Nov 2009 PerfSONAR might be useful Q: What happens when a fast (10 Gb/s) source sends to a slow (Gb/s) client over a long delay path?
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Speed match buffers Jim Warner UC Santa Cruz February 2010
Solution searching for problem • Campus 10G connection in Nov 2009 • PerfSONAR might be useful • Q: What happens when a fast (10 Gb/s) source sends to a slow (Gb/s) client over a long delay path? • CENIC’s transition from Cisco to Foundry hinted this might be interesting.
Is there hope? • Vendors will not provide bigger buffers. $$$ and power • Ethernet flow control might help • Change TCP to make it less bursty http://yuba.stanford.edu/~yganjali/research/publications/Infocom-2006.pdf