[86558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comments or suggestions required Internap FCP 500 vs. OER
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher McCrory)
Thu Nov 10 17:34:20 2005
From: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@pricegrabber.com>
To: Matt Buford <matt@overloaded.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005301c5e5a4$9f0af5a0$0261a8c0@speedy>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:33:48 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello...
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:12 -0500, Matt Buford wrote:
<snip>
>
> In general, I'm skeptical that it is really providing much of a performance
> boost. However, it does a good job at balancing traffic levels and that is
> the main value we get from the product. It was basically a "fire and
> forget" system. Once installed, we were able to just forget about traffic
> engineering and only touch things when adding/removing a link (or for
> special situations like manually routing around bad paths).
>
> If you'd like technical information about how it works or the potential
> scaling issues that can result let me know what you're interested in and I
> can expand a bit.
Can you expand a bit on how it dealt with the Level3 meltdown last
month?
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