[1802] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
fair competition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Dec 28 22:12:55 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 28 Dec 91 21:57:06 EST (Sat)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 28-DEC-91 21:57
cook@tmn
One thing i note about the T-3 core node backbone is that each node has
but two paths. And I believe that each end node has but one path into and
out of the MCI national backbone. Now I am new to networking so there may
be something that I am missing here, but as I remember every node except
one on the old t-1 backbone had THREE paths to the rest of the network,
the one that did not had two paths (the midnet node I believe).
Would it be correct to conclude that such a network topology is MUCH more
failure prone than the T-1 net that is about to be turned off.
How DOES the community benefit from the new architecture and the increased
speed?? Can someone show me what I am missing?
Rick's note seems to make a lot of sense.
