[29204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Wed Jun 14 19:02:31 2000
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
Message-Id: <200006142228.PAA69117@typo.org>
In-Reply-To: <3947F036.5343882@exodus.net> from Mark Tripod at "Jun 14, 2000 01:51:02 pm"
To: mark@exodus.net (Mark Tripod)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:28:00 -0700 (MST)
Cc: dhudes@hudes.org, nanog@merit.edu
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This kind of topic has the makings of a good presentation for the WDC
nanog...
Any takers?
> No public exchange architecture can hope to cope with the massive
> amounts of traffic being exchanged between the larger backbone networks.
> Public exchanges are good entry points for new networks while they build
> their customer base and traffic levels. At some point private
> interconnects must take over in order for a company to continue to
> provide the level of connectivty and service that their customers
> expect.
>
> The next operational issue that I forsee is the effective scaling of
> private interconnect bandwidth (especially with the lack of real port
> density on a certain router vendor's product).
>
> Mark
>
> dhudes@hudes.org wrote:
> >
> > Isn't the push to MAE-ATM ?
> > For better or worse -- the FDDI switch MAE can't hope to keep up
> > when people are building OC-48 cross-country backbones. All that traffic
> > goes someplace. It becomes expensive to have multiple ports on the FDDI
> > switch paying for each.
>
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Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ]
web@typo.org [Company Name Here]
Network Engineer
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