[5552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Mon Oct 21 20:40:05 1996
From: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:35:58 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961021163854.22942O-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 21, 96 04:49:32 pm
> > In other words, the big players don't like the "open" naps and
> > are deliberately not installing sufficient bandwidth to them?
>
> No, the open NAP's are bad engineering and the big players are fixing the
> topology by routing around them.
But people keep claiming that some naps are well engineered and have
excess capacity and that the problem is the size of the pipes leading
to them. Adding more pipes is easy enough, leading to the conclusion
that there are other factors at play.
> Visualize a typical garden spiderweb. All the main strands lead to the
But a spiderweb is for trapping things. Visualize Federal Express and
their "super nap" model for moving packages.
