[114094] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan)
Thu Apr 30 22:15:36 2009
In-Reply-To: <49FA570F.3030107@brightok.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:15:28 -0500
From: Stefan <netfortius@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
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> Stefan wrote:
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>> hmmm ...
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>> http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
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>
> Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can monitor and
> control from end to end make it easier to retain and improve network
> performance than relying on the Internet"
>
> Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days without
> using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet traffic? And what
> is the point without the ability to communicate with others? I thought we
> were well past isolated networks.
>
> -Jack
>
The point of the blog I quoted was that things are not only black, or
only white (as some have been tempted to judge - i.e. completely
bashing the original article). To your point - we need to communicate
with others (Internet - non QoS ...), of course, but the critical
production traffic runs for some on top of fully monitored (not
necessarily controlled!) networks ... still ...
--
***Stefan
http://twitter.com/netfortius
