[5617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Tue Oct 22 19:13:59 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
To: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: jon@branch.net's message of 22 Oct 96 22:32:49 GMT
> While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
> there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
> networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.
Sure there is. Running one larger interconnect has the potential to
be much less expensive and easier to run than many smaller ones.
Economy of scale...
That's simply a fallacy. One larger interconnect assumes that the
cost of aggregate bandwidth scales linearly, when it fact it's clearly
super-linear and may well be exponential. This becomes worse as supporting
the aggregate bandwidth exceeds commodity media technology.
Tony
