[nsp] Gigabit/Fibre LAN - Required Network Elements

[Colin Whittaker]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:22:40PM -0500, Church, Chuck wrote:
> I haven't checked in a year or so, but last I knew, no server could come
> close to saturating a gig link.  

Reaching a Gig traffic levels from a single server isn't that hard.
Our ftp server can reach that with only 2 or 3 client requests.
In production the clients usually have smaller bandwidth so less likely
to hit the Gige but we are up to 400+ Megs with a doubling period of
under a year. 

Colin
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