[e2e] Re: UDP vs. TCP distribution

[Joe Touch]

Panos GEVROS wrote:
> 
> low delay (or jitter) is good but whether this should be the network design
> goal is a different matter;
...
> it all depends on whether need for interactive experience or access to
> information proves to be the killer app - but if bounded delay is a necessity
> and customers are prepared to pay for it then we may be better of with
> something where one directly "dials the web server"

My concern is optimizing the entire network for a single class of
applications as well. There are different goals - maximizing BW,
minimizing latency, minimizing jitter. 

What matters is how flexible the infrastructure is to providing
these, hopefully concurrently.

Joe