[5561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Mon Oct 21 21:57:23 1996
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:54:40 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vFUp4-000H5yC@aero.branch.com> from "Jon Zeeff" at Oct 21, 96 08:35:58 pm
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>
> > > 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.
>
In fact... :)
To borrow from your FedEx model..
We can build bigger doors (MTU) but the conveyer belts are stuck
at 100Mm/sec. We need faster conveyer belts!
(waiting for HPPI-64 or G-Ether technologies w/ baited breath :)
And then watch out 2-4Gbps backplanes... (that is aggregate right?)
--
--bill
