[10779] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE West
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jul 14 11:10:31 1997
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 07:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: dcrocker@brandenburg.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707141333.AA26267@zephyr.isi.edu> from "Bill Manning" at Jul 14, 97 06:33:08 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
>
Both assumputions have been repeatedly proven false BY MFS.
Owen
