[50828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Aug 10 17:00:21 2002
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:59:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <g3bs8bqdbi.fsf@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 10 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
> why on god's earth would subsecond anything matter in a nonmilitary situation?
Telemedicine, tele-robotics, etc, etc. Actually, there's a lot of cases
when you want to have subsecond recovery. The current Internet routing
technology is not up to the task; so people who need it have to build
private networks and pay for that arm and leg, too.
--vadim
