[e2e] how far it queues?

[David P. Reed]

At 12:39 PM 10/4/2002 -0300, Alexandre L. Grojsgold wrote:
>Then come people with some voice and video applications and tell us that
>they have some special needs to run their stuff:
>
>- the packet transmission delay shall not exceed much the time that light
>   takes to cover the distance between the sender and the receiver;
>
>- the jitter must be low, i.e., the delay must not vary much, nor very
>   fast.
>
>- very few packet discards.
>
>
>Ok, given these needs, what can one expect from the above mentioned happy
>and healthy net? Will it fit the needs? Most of the time? Half the time?
>Hardly?

It's easy to make up "requirements".   Most of them are BS.   If somebody 
came to me with requirements like those above, I'd say: wow, aren't you 
special.

I could come to the US electric power grid and ask it for femtosecond 
pulses of energy on demand at any random time I choose, with the only 
constraint being that I never use more than 1 Megawatt-hour per year, 
averaged over a year, which is really a modest power consumption.

Sounds reasonable, right?   Any power network should be able to do that if 
I just connect my load across the 110V terminals, and switch it on?