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[Vincent Cunniffe]

Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:11:35PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:

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>>I still bet ya though you could improve greatly on that 444Mbit/s
>>with decent 64bit hardware. Whether its worth the cost of the
>>inflated prices... :)
> 
> That 444Mbit is limited by our users bandwidth, not ours :) We
> could go up to 2Gig without any problem, but only for a few
> thousand users. Our limits are more in terms of number of users,
> we can't scale to tens of thousands of users, which is where
> we need to be next :)

Just out of interest : do you have A Plan(tm) for how to get there? 
Current hardware with tweaks, or new hardware?

Regards,

Vin