Long fat network
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In data communications, a long fat network (shortened to LFN and often pronounced "elephant") is a network with a large bandwidth-delay product. As defined in RFC 1072, a network is considered a LFN if its bandwidth-delay product is significantly larger than 105 bits (~12 kB).
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