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[ih] Arpanet line speed
- Subject: [ih] Arpanet line speed
- From: dhc2 at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:31:26 -0800
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On 1/18/2017 6:59 AM, Andrew G. Malis wrote:
> By the time I came on board in '79, almost all of the links were 56
> Kbps, with a few 9.6 Kbps links here and there. The 50 Kbps links had
> been replaced by that point.
>
My recollection is that all the initial lines (for some years) were the
same, 50Kbps, speed, to keep the overall system dynamics simpler, and
that 9.6 lines were only allowed much later. Might have been by 79, though.
d/
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Dave Crocker
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