[50214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Jul 22 23:11:11 2002
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 23:10:39 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: Phil Rosenthal <pr@isprime.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0207222157190.3540-100000@NEON.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:01:36PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> So, what do you do? You monitor it's usage, making adjustments to make
> sure it doesn't get clobbered. You can easily run DS-3s at 35 to 40
> mbit/sec, with little to none increase in latency from the norm. Many
> people do this as well, even up to OC12 or higher levels all the time.
Just remember that while a 5 minute average may not be at 100%, the
microbursts are probably quite a bit over that.
For an ISP who actually cares about making money it's not *easy* to say
"I'm terminating my peer to PSI because of their degraded performance and
unwillingness to upgrade", but a de-localpref'ing is probably a good idea.
:)
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