[12470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 16:36:13 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:06:56 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
Cc: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <34203300.41C67EA6@pluris.com>; from Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com> on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 12:44:00PM -0700
On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 12:44:00PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> > At
> > that point a pizza parlor owner says to himself "two out of every five of
> > my customers are on the Internet. Perhaps I need a web page." And,
> > suddenly, pizza on the Net makes a lot of sense and the traffic patterns
> > shift. As the density grows to 90%, local traffic becomes dominant over
> > distant traffic.
>
> Georgaphically local, not topologically.
Precisely.
> A *big* difference.
>
> Unless we're willing to go back to regulated monopolies geographical
> locality makes little difference in overall traffic patterns.
How do you say "bullshit" in Russian?
C'mon, Vadim. As the Net, and the Web in particular, grow more
geographically dense -- IE: as there _is_ more local stuff for users to
look at -- they _will_; people are natively more interested in that
which is near to them geographically.
And unless we unload that traffic from the backbones and the NAP's,
_it_ will be what melts down the net.
Cheers,
-- jra
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