[98783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wilcox)
Fri Aug 17 07:20:38 2007
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:57:04 +0100
From: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>
To: Hex Star <hexstar@gmail.com>
Cc: "michael.dillon@bt.com" <michael.dillon@bt.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5dc6fd9e0708160907t53c769dbuc9e580a64c4d9b98@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:07:31AM -0700, Hex Star wrote:
> How does akamai handle traffic congestion so seamlessly? Perhaps we should
> look at existing setups implemented by companies such as akamai for
> guidelines regarding how to resolve this kind of issue...
and if you are a Content Delivery Network wishing to use a cache deployment architecture you should do just that ... but for networks with big backbones as per this discussion we need to do something else
Steve
