[10781] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE West
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jul 14 11:15:27 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:45:22 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US>
Cc: Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>, dcrocker@brandenburg.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707141427.HAA03208@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US>; from Owen DeLong <owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US> on Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 07:27:15AM -0700
On Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 07:27:15AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > To true. Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s
[ quoting Bill ]
> > 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.
> Both assumputions have been repeatedly proven false BY MFS.
Indeed. More importantly, Bill, he wasn't suggesting duplicating the
400Mbps aggregate, but _splitting_ it; it is, after all, _already_ 4
separate links.
Cheers,
-- jra
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