Apply Moore's law to packet sizes Split *10 steps into *8 MTU and 20% shorter times Rate MTU Pkt time (Actual) 10 Mb/s 1.5kBytes 1200 uS (1982 - 1200uS) 100 Mb/s 12kBytes 960 uS (1995 - 120uS) 1 Gb/s 96 kBytes 768 uS (1998 - 12uS) 10 Gb/s 750 kBytes 600 uS (2002 - 1.2 uS) 100 Gb/s 6 MBytes 480 uS 1 Tb/s 50 MBytes 400 uS