[12975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Oct 21 22:38:45 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:24:29 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>
Cc: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971021215440.3188g-100000@thorn.blackrose.org> [9710.21]
On Oct 21, "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org> wrote:
> Then perhaps it might of interest to start a meta discussion about
> problems of scalability of Gigaswitch based exchange points as well as
> possible future direction of such large exchange points?
AFAIK, there are only two types of exchanges out there today:
1. Switched Ethernet and/or FDDI
2. ATM
We all know switched ethernet doesn't scale by itself,
which is why we've gone to switched FDDI.
And, it's quite possible that we're reaching the end of
scalability for switched FDDI -- unless, of course, some
amazing new technolgy comes along and fixes everything in
one swell foop.
Are the ATM-based NAP's having any problems with scalability
these days? How far can they go?
Personally, I'd also be really curious as to any testing
that people have done or are doing in terms of other forms
of NAP fabric. Will gigabit ethernet save us all?
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