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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:12:34 -0500
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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