Latency

• Slower channels “stretch out” bits in time:

  • a bit on a 1Mb/s link is 1 msec wide
  • a bit on a 10Mb/s link is 0.1 msec wide

• Total Latency = tx time + queue

  • transmit time = { last slide }
  • queue delay = { depends! }

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