[72286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Mon Jul 5 20:02:45 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040705180203.GA22406@vijaygill.com>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:00:22 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jul 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, vijay gill wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:55:42AM -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:
>>
>> $5000 for an ethernet switch port? It makes me long for the days of
>> throwing
>> ethernet cables over the ceiling to informally peer with other
>> networks in a
> Throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling does not scale.
Sure it does. The question is: "How far does it scale?" Nothing
scales to infinity, and very, very few things do not scale past the
degenerate case of 1.
If you s/ethernet cables/optical fibers/, it scales even further.
Especially since this is not being used for all his traffic.
Not everyone needs a terabit of exit capacity. Guaranteeing everything
you do is close to infinitely scalable is a Bad Idea for people who do
not.
And even if you do need a terabit of exit capacity, nothing wrong with
the occasional OC768 routed through the ceiling. :)
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TTFN,
patrick
