[28662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu May 11 14:53:34 2000
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 11:50:25 -0700
Message-Id: <200005111850.LAA16499@miata.procket.com>
From: Tony Li <tli@procket.com>
To: akyol@pluris.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, craig@aland.bbn.com
In-reply-to: <391AFDA7.7B22570A@pluris.com> (message from Bora Akyol on Thu,
11 May 2000 11:36:23 -0700)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
| This last point is interesting: "Redirecting traffic from hot spots"
| This now is truly ad-hoc and only achieves short term fixes and a human
| intervention. I thought one of the purposes of TE was to reduce the
| amount of management necessary.
You're making a large assumption. On a large network, hot spots can be
determined by automated means. This has been happening in the phone
network for decades.
Tony
