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Re: Lightning Debates at NANOG 51

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Daly)
Tue Dec 7 15:47:12 2010

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 15:45:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Tom Daly <tom@dyn.com>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <86446A2E-36A3-4EC3-A3F8-AA2E5D491BF2@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Greg,

> i suspect you are correct,  not sure who would elect for the slower
> standard,  considering they hit the streets fairly close to each other
> and I can't see there being a huge difference in cost, but i could be
> wrong. (the isp i'm connected to is running100G now)

Regarding 40G/100G, I'm sure some in the NANOG community have some feeling =
towards 40G as it was intended to be a server platform standard. With archi=
tectures such as 1aq, TRILL, VL2, etc, there may be some grounds here. What=
's the good of 100G if you can't push the PPS, for example. Just a thought.=
..

> i've more 10G ports than you can shake a stick at actually=E2=80=A6  my '=
?'
> was again,  people debate this?  as the bit rates are verbatum,  the
> major difference which one would choose the other over from my
> understanding was distance to endpoint..  but again i could be wrong=E2=
=80=A6=20
> wishing now i didn't send anything.  8)

Nah, send away. What debate were you volunteering to take a position on aga=
in? :)

Tom



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