"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
In message <003b01c003c6$3ffe9230$0a00000a(_at_)contactdish>, "Anthony
Atkielski" wr
ites:
The telephone company has milliseconds to seconds
to resolve an address into a route. The Internet
has microseconds to nanoseconds to do so.
Build faster hardware.
We seem to be talking 5-6 orders of magnitude in speed here. Even
Moore's Law doesn't help in that range.
Also, circuit setup needed for establishing routing labels requires at
least one round trip time (ignoring processing time), which is pretty
much a constant given geographic distance.
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