[5622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Tue Oct 22 19:31:57 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:29:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.net>
cc: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>, kwe@6sigmanets.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vFpNS-000H5wC@aero.branch.com>
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote:
> 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...
Perhaps from the perspective of a NAP operator, maybe.
Large interconnects like MAE-East does not have better scaling characteristics
then private interconnects, both from infrastructure and staff resources point
of view.
-dorian
