[98784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Aug 17 07:44:14 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070817105704.GS29648@MrServer.telecomplete.net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:28:43 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
> 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
Ignoring "Akamai" and looking at just content providers (CDN or
otherwise) in general, there is a huge difference between telling a
web server "do not serve more than 900 Mbps on your GigE port", and a
router which simply gets bits from random sources to be forwarded to
random destinations.
IOW: Steve is right, those are two different topics.
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TTFN,
patrick
