PPT Slide
Wide Area Networking:
- Present:
- Backbone at 45 Mbps and access bandwidth at 19.2 Kbps.
- Future:
- Backbone at a few Gbps and access bandwidth at 56Kbps
or higher with Cable-modems.
Mobile Users:
- increase in disconnected operation mode.
- files will be cached for longer periods (hours or days) at the client laptop.
Trends in Distributed File Systems