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RFC1925, Rule 2

According to RFC1925, the second fundamental truth of networking is: No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light. However early in the world of network engineering this problem was first observed (see, for instance, Tanenbaum’s “station wagon example” in Computer Networks), human impatience is forever trying to overcome the limitations of the physical world, and push more data down the pipe than mother nature intended (or Shannon’s theory allows).

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1 Comment

  1. Igor on 12 July 2019 at 2:47 am

    Here’s the funny thing, we can’t increase the speed but we sure could increase the throughput. Lol



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