[10778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE West
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Mon Jul 14 09:43:45 1997
From: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
To: dcrocker@brandenburg.com (Dave Crocker)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 06:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970714000130.006a4914@ng.netgate.net> from "Dave Crocker" at Jul 14, 97 00:01:30 am
> At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> >As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between
> >circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a
> >factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join
> >two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much
> >better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.
>
> Better performance, but worse reliability?
>
> The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?
>
> d/
To true. Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s
to build in better reliability? It appears that the owners/operators of
MAE-West are selecting an optimization path based on the assumption that
outages are infrequent and can be quickly corrected.
--bill
