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Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link?

Posted by simoniker on from the zoomity-zoom dept.

FuzzyDaddy writes "My company is planning on demonstrating a 2.5 Gigabit per second link to some potential customers in the next few months. Now, we have all the equipment needed to measure how well the link is performing, but we'd like to put together a cheap 'Gee Whiz' demonstration. Surely other /.'ers have put together similar demos in the past. What combination of computers, network adapters, and software have you used to demonstrate high data rate links to potential customers?"

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  1. Re:1 terabyte backup to remote site in 7 mins.. by m0ntar3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... but do you're math in bits not bytes... that'd be like 53 minutes in bit time (oops).

  2. Check how SUNET did it by thorgil · · Score: 5, Informative

    here:
    http://proj.sunet.se/E2E/

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  3. Re:Relate in DVDs by ysachlandil · · Score: 5, Informative

    DVD is 8mbps, this link is 2.5Gbps. A dozen DVD's won't even make a dent in the capacity of this line, you'll need 2 to 3 hundred DVD's playing at once...

    If you can show this (videowall) it would be very impressive!

    --Blerik

  4. Re:If even you don't know what it's good for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then the answer is probably to include upgrading in the demo.

    "This is two-way video over a 128k link"

    "This is two-way video over a 512k link"

    and so on. Notch the quality up each time, until you get to full-screen two-way TV with your link.

    Video does seem to be the easiest bandwidth-soak to set up, but everyone's seen it now. It's not exactly gee whiz.

    Maybe a simple video-on-demand demo, with half a dozen DVD-quality MPEGs at the top end and a set-top box (more than one?) at the bottom would be suit-attractive.

    If you want to get clever, choose DVDs with multiple endings so you can offer the user choices as they view (maybe Roadrunner cartoons are short enough and episodic enough to make this work as a demo).

    How about a recording of voices? Lay 2 conversations over each other, and say "this is the number of conversations that can be transferred over a 20kbps link".

    Add 8 more conversations "and this is a 100kpbs link"

    And so on, until you reach a roar of conversation with the high-end link (1/4 million calls? Ok, maybe that's unrealistic).