[1335] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Infrastructure? (Definition thereof)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.c)
Mon Sep 16 11:24:35 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 07:50:44 PDT
From: Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.com
To: com-priv@psi.com
Excuse me for stating the obvious, but who really wants single backbones? Even
if we can get a single path way up to the multi-gigabit range. Or even multiple
backbones when the multi-bones (new term?) use the same routing protocols and
equipment. ANS, NSFNet and other *potential* national networks must maintain
their hardware, software, and management separation. That is the only real way
of guaranteeing that the AT&T switching crash doesn't happen to the Internet.
The management of national IP providers should (must?) go out of their way to
ensure this separation. True, some money will be wasted. But the ensuing
reliability of differing paths would be well worth the cost.
Bye the bye, can anyone tell me what percentage of national IP traffic is
carried by sat, fiber, microwave, and copper? And what is to prevent a
well-meaning DCO engineer from consolidating deliberatly seperated links onto a
single path for efficiency. And thereby setting up a commnications disaster.
just curious, Chuck Kuhlman
