[5784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sat Oct 26 22:51:51 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:50:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Darin Wayrynen <darin@good.net>
cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610270242.TAA23660@indy.good.net>
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Darin Wayrynen wrote:
> > Of course, I was half-joking, but why only one Gigaswitch? Why not two,
> > for redundancy, as is implemented at Pennsauken?
> >
> > With a backup FDDI ring?
> > And I assume, spare power supplies and processors?
>
> Which begs a question: why use a Giga-switch at all?
>
> With the head of line blocking feature/problem and scalability only to
> full duplex 100 mbps is a Gigaswitch something that should be used in
> a next generation NAP?
>
> I'm not suggesting it's intended to be the next generation NAP, but
> you'd think that they would want to use the latest switches and
> technology available, rather than continue down the FDDI road.
200 mbps full duplex, and I think it is fine for now. Come on, MAE-NewYork
that just opened started with only a 10 meg catlyst. I started with a
gigaswitch. No, I don't think the gigaswitch will be in the next
generation NAP, but it is a good start. We are looking at other options
now for the future.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
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