[2678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-exchange media types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Apr 25 17:24:17 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:18:59 +0800
From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
To: curtis@ans.net, jerry@fc.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, tex@isc.upenn.edu
Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> wrote:
>The problem for the major exchanges may soon be what to do when the
>gigaswitch runs out of bandwidth.
a) access links will run out of gas first.
b) if shared infrastructure gets overloaded you can always
drop point-to-point FDDI to the peers you have the largest
traffic with, and so offload large chunks of tarffic from
the shared infrastructure. That was one of the reasons
why colocation was choosen as The Way To Go.
--vadim
