[67965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Watson)
Thu Feb 26 13:24:17 2004
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:23:43 -0700
From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040226181158.GB12758@vijaygill.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 1) their backbones currently "work" - changing them
>> into something which may or may not "work better" is a
>> non-trivial operation, and risks the network.
i would disagree. their backbone tend to reach scaling problems, hence the
need for bleeding/leading edge technologies. that's been my experience in
three past-large networks.
>
> This is perhaps current. Check back to see large deployments
> GSR - sprint/UUNEt
> GRF - uunet
> Juniper - UUNET/CWUSA
indeed, and going back even further
is-is, 7000 and the original SSE - mci/sprint
vip and netflow - genuity (the original)/probably many others
-b
