[18869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East - Operational question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hood)
Thu Aug 20 13:40:27 1998
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Hood <hoodr@conxion.net>
To: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808192012.VAA23517@diamond.xara.net>
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Alex Bligh wrote:
>Does anyone care about trying to get packet loss over MAE-East reduced
>any more? Some peers have quite heavy packet loss to them from where
>I'm sitting, and have done for a good while. It seems to me it's
>not a problem with my port, and I don't think I have head of line blocking
>problems, which means it's either a Gigaswitch problem, or their ports
>are simply full. Does anyone still hassle Worldcom and peers about this
>or have we lost hope of ever getting it fixed (i.e. people peer privately
>or hope other exchange points or a replacement will come along).
My attempts at getting answers out of them were responded with "we are
aware of the problem" "we are *trying* to add more capacity" "we cant
give you any completion dates". Of course, this was a few months ago.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Modern ethernet/packet switches claim
to handle 20-40 Gbits/s. MAE-WEST is peaking around 1.65 Gbits/s. If
the Gigaswitch has reached the end of its useful life at the MAEs.....
replace them.
So who is signing up for the MAE-WEST/EAST ATM service? We're considering
it, but MFS wont tell us who else is considering it. Kind of makes it
hard to sign a 3 year contract with no idea if there will be other people
to peer with.
