[6408] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Dec 4 15:54:10 1996
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:40:11 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: dannystroud@msn.com, lists@reflections.mindspring.com, nanog@merit.edu
Danny Stroud <dannystroud@msn.com> wrote:
>What I meant was that the demand for traffic seems
>to be growing faster than technologies ability to deliver it. Even with the
>planned *new* technologies, I am predicting that there will be a point where
>the traffic of the exchange points will need to bifurcate simply to be able to
>process the load, i.e. more *smaller* exchange points all running at top
>capacity of the available technology.
There's at least one way to make IXPs to handle nearly arbitrary amount
of traffic; so this is not a fundamental problem. It's only a matter of
time and money. http://www.pluris.com explains how it can be done.
In other words, traffic is not the problem. It is more economical to
have fewer high-capacity facilities instead of a zillion of lower
capacity ones. BTW, the number of switch sites LDCs have is a lot less
than the number of their POPs, for exactly that reason.
--vadim
