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- From: kyma@shell.portal.com (Matt J Young)
- Subject: Re: LAN link cost issues
- Message-ID: <Bzx5n4.CJM@unix.portal.com>
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- References: <to6efqs@sgi.sgi.com> <23095@venera.isi.edu> <1992Dec22.185414.25469@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:04:15 GMT
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- Problem:
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- In a campus area network, the corporate office wants to access all
- reports across the company by subject. The reports, written by some
- 50 small randomly located teams, must be sorted in place. Hence the
- requirement to build a sorting tree spanning the campus, using the high
- speed network.
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- To connect 50 small groups with any to any virtual paths requires some
- 50 * 49 circuits, (right?), so the database designer wants to use a router.
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- The dilemma: Since the database designer already manages semantic
- networks containing hundreds of thousands of nodes, why doesn't he use
- his same Access Strategy Language to build a simple router within the
- network, designed especially for this sort problem? Why should he/she
- have to drop down to the network layer and use traditional routers, the
- language he uses is perfectly capable of carrying forward across the net.
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- The problem is solvable when the data base designer views the network
- as just another set of semantic nodes.
-