[NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?

[nanog at daork.net (Nathan Ward)]

On 6/05/2008, at 8:02 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Of course not. Like I said, as an average end-user with 10 Mbps you
> get to send a maximum of 2500 packets per second. That's plenty to do
> VoIP, set up TCP sessions or do IM. You just don't get to send the
> full 10 Mbps at this size.


Hmm, I see value in that.

But, good luck trying to convince customers to take a pps limitation  
in addition to a Mbps limitation, whether they ever exceed that pps or  
not. You /might/ convince them to take a pps limitation only - but if  
they want to do 30Mbit (ie 2500pps @ 1500b) then your product needs to  
support that.

Maybe you just start calling "10Mbps" "10Mbps, assuming a 500b average  
packet size."

Anyway, nice idea in theory - putting more real world limitations in  
to sold product limitations - but I don't see it working out with  
marketing people, etc. unless someone has been doing it for years  
already. It'd be good if the world were all engineers though, huh?

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Nathan Ward