[97572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith)
Sat Jun 23 22:21:48 2007
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:20:59 -0700
From: Keith <twigles@liberalhedonism.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> However, if you put 15G down your "20G" path, you have no redundancy.
> In a cut, dropping 5G on the floor, causing 33% packet loss is not
> "up", it might as well be down.
>
> If your redundancy solution is at Layer 3, you have to have the
> policies in place that you don't run much over 10G across your dual
> 10G links or you're back to effectively giving up all redundancy.
This can be a valid solution. Our company has some multimedia traffic
that can be axed if a catastrophe befalls our tubes. Obviously we'd
prefer not to drop (or ax, as it were) any type of traffic, but it's a
monetary decision.
