[72227] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Sat Jul 3 01:19:24 2004
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 05:17:27 GMT
To: patrick@ianai.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Indeed, I agree.
I remember earlier times when there were serious concerns over
serious traffic bottlenecks, primarily due to the lag in speed-of-bits-on-the-wire technology ramp up. I recall the
NSFnet backbone at a whopping 56kb trunk speed prior to the
node transition(s)!
We, collectively, have left those days behind for the most part.
Now, it's just a matter of "five-pound-bag" engineering.
I'm quite proud and happy to see this experiment succeed to
the point where we have the "problems" we do. ;-)
Cheers,
- ferg
-- Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
Today, even free NAPs pass gigabits of traffic and do it robustly.
If you have counter examples, I would be interested in seeing them. A
lot of traffic passes on NAPs, and I'd hate to see any of it not get to
where it was going.
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or
fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
