[122573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIRD vs Quagga
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Feb 17 01:04:36 2010
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:03:58 -0800
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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On 2010-02-16, at 22:00, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> =
wrote:
>>=20
>=20
>> I am somewhat intrigued at this network you mention with which people =
have practical experience that has more nodes than the Internet does, =
though. That'd be quite a network.
>=20
> what's the current estimate on PSTN endpoints? 2-3B globally?
True, I was thinking about packet-switched networks, since it always =
seems to me that a circuit-switched network is only as big at any time =
as the number of circuits that exist, not the number of possible =
termination points for circuits. Quite possibly I'm just smoking crack, =
however.
Joe
