[10280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Fri Jun 27 16:14:49 1997
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:08:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
To: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>
cc: Peter Cole <Peter.Cole@telescan.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
marketing@keynote.com
In-Reply-To: <199706271714.2046200@boardwatch.com>
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Jack Rickard wrote:
==>Not an entirely whacky concept actually. The way hot potato routing works,
==>this could actually be a "purer" test I suspect of the network internally
==>and a purer test of connectivity of any network to all others cum Internet.
The article says that you're measuring backbone provider performance, yet
you're including:
* carrier's web server location
* carrier's web server performance
==>Keynote does a "Top 40" study of 40 popular web sites and I believe they
==>make the results available on their web site. It is interesting to observe
==>performance variations of the network as a whole over time. Other than
==>that, we don't have much interest in it. It is indicative of no specific
==>network, but of the Internet in general.
/cah
