[ntp:questions] Re: stratum

David Schwartz davids at webmaster.com
Tue Sep 27 02:42:12 UTC 2005


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:ntGdnb0WbdMEM6XeRVn-3A at comcast.com...

> Then I'll revise my estimate upwards.  A server running on modern hardware 
> and with 45Mbit bandwidth available should be able to handle something 
> like 200,000 well behaved clients.  I suspect, however, that the cost of 
> T3 service is such that damned few servers have that much bandwidth 
> available.

    Quite the reverse, most publically accessible servers are probably run 
by larger institutions that have much more bandwidth than that.

    DS





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