[sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:32:15PM -0700, Gene Stopp wrote:
> Me too! 100M Ethernet is pretty damn fast in an uncongested point-to-point
> local link. And soon will be the day that you won't be able to buy anything
> that doesn't go 100M/full duplex. Rid of 10M and collisions, this just may
> work. Even through layer 2 store and forward switches, uncongested latencies
> can be as low as 14-15 microseconds with 64-byte frames. Throw in RTP encaps
> and you might get it to work over WAN links.

Should just do MIDI over Myrinet and keep the latency under 7us. :-)

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