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Re: Peering point speed publicly available?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Thu Jul 1 23:40:26 2004

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 03:39:42 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <BD0A3963.2505%dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


DG> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 21:57:55 -0400
DG> From: Daniel Golding

DG> Its funny, you always see people asking about peering link
DG> sizes or locations on RFP's, but they never ask about peering
DG> utilization or packet loss. The former is both NDA and
DG> meaningless - the latter is terribly important.

It's ANES -- Armchair Network Engineer Syndrome.  The same people
fuss arbitrarily about traceroute hop count.


Eddy
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