May 15, 2003

fat pipe

A high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. When the term gained currency in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat pipe, but the standard has risen. Now it suggests multiple T3s.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:48 AM

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