[10755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Backbone Index
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Sun Jul 13 18:38:54 1997
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
cc: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:08:00 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:27:20 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> The router side could turn the argument. "With a routed backbone, you can
> actually SEE what is happening to your packets. It is not a hidden unknown,
> thus prone to failure you can not diagnose. With routers you know it went
> bad at nqu1. With switches, it just went bad."
Cynics mike argue that lack of end user visibility of network problems
is a compelling argument *for* NSPs to deploy switched backbones ...
("No, our backbone is just fine, { the NAP lost your packet | it got
stolen by the packet fairies } " etc ...)
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
