From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 16:28:42 GMT-3
>When I told my employers we didn't have to worry about Y2K for 48 more years
>they didn't think it was very funny.
Must have been the same group that refused to believe the Dark Ages
were caused by the Y1K problem.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>Wade Edwards
>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:34 AM
>To: Brown, Nelson; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: 1000 vs 1024?
>
>
>When you are talking about memory then 1K = 1024. When you are talking
>about hard drive space then 1K = 1024 (although hard drive manufactures
>quote their drive sizes as 1K = 1000 this is just marketing.) When you
>are talking about bandwidth 1K = 1000. This is the way the
>telecommunications industry does it.
>
>L8r.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Brown, Nelson [mailto:Nelson.Brown@NASD.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:49 AM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: 1000 vs 1024?
>
>For all telecom and networking apps, 1k = 1000, not 1024.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Waters, Kivas (UK72) [mailto:Kivas.Waters@Honeywell.com]
>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:21 AM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: 1000 vs 1024?
>
>
>Can someone advise me when translating kilo-bit values to byte values
>and
>vica versa.
>
>In some lab scenario model answers there appears to me to be some
>inconsistency when it comes to configuring FR broadcast traffic shaping
>for
>example. Here's an example :
>
>You are asked to reduce the effect of broadcast traffic flooding a FR
>serial
>link (S0). You are given the following parameters : Q size of 80 ; 300
>kbps
>broadcast data rate ; 200 packets per second.
>
>The solution needs : frame-relay broadcast-queue <Qsize> <bytes/sec>
><packets/sec>
>
>My question is, how do I interpret the 300 kbps? Is it (300*1024)/8 or
>(300*1000)/8?
>
>This is my guess ...
>
>frame-relay broadcast-queue 80 38400 200
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