[145774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internap lose all clue?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Nakamura)
Thu Oct 20 16:55:24 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAEs2ZiLHi-whK0eSANwdD+zG93xk21+D95EovrK1RoiacYeQuQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:54:22 -0400
From: Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog@gmail.com>
To: bas <kilobit@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well, it didn't say "router hops"... They could mean "AS hops" I
guess. I never trust marketing garbage anyway. It makes my head
hurt.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:48 PM, bas <kilobit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person.
> The third line of the email read:
>
> "As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT"
>
> I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count.
> Then I replied to the guy that if he tries to sell a technical product
> to technical people he should get his info straight.
>
> But he replied BGP actually makes decisions based on hop count.
> He even sent an URL from the internap website that states this
> http://www.internap.com/it-iq/route-optimization-miro/
>
> On that page there is also this gem:
> "BGP relies on the premise that hops are responsible for packet loss
> and congestion, and therefore a route with fewer hops is inherently
> better. "
>
>
> I can imagine blatant misinformation like this from a shady startup
> trying to trick some sales with smoke and mirrors, but from Internap?
>
>
> -- Bas
>
>
