[12978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Oct 21 23:04:05 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:57:15 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
CC: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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?
Gigabit Ethernet as a backbone technology -- too little, too late.
IMO, betting on physical media speeds keeping up with traffic
is silly.
Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange
point which scales nearly indefinitely. We're working on making
it real. Other folks may have other ideas.
--vadim
