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Multicast and the markets with Brian Nigito

Signals and Threads

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A Brief Introduction to Multicast and Serialization Delay

When you send out a packet, it has to be emitted in real time from beginning to end at a particular fixed rate. That means there's a translation between how big the packet is and temporally, how long it takes to get emitted onto the wire. On a 10 gig network, what does that translation look like? I think it roughly works out to something like a nanosecond per byte.

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