[10801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE West
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Mon Jul 14 15:06:31 1997
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: bmanning@isi.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:36:13 -0700 (MST)
Cc: stuart@pa.dec.com, jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707141740.AA24905@zed.isi.edu> from "bmanning@ISI.EDU" at Jul 14, 97 10:40:27 am
> I think that the argument here is that there is a real need to have
> an aggregate 400Mbp/s "pipe" in service as opposed to 2 each 200Mbp/s
> "pipes". To gain the redunancy that Mr. Dave suggests, would actually
> encourage the deployment of -two- additional 400Mbp/s channels.
>
> Then the economics arguments kick in.
Haven't been following this thread all that closely so pardon me if
this has already been dealt with.. but note the earlier comment from
mfs that the design constraints say loop free layer 2 topology. Which
means redundant links don't exist.
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