[9126] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANSNet upgrade completed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Sat Dec 18 13:26:20 1993
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 13:22:00 EST
From: Ittai Hershman <ittai@ans.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
ANS provides a networking service which goes well beyond the physical
network infrastructure. The physical network, ANSNet, has been
interconnected with full capacity DS-3/T3 circuits since day one.
And it has more than satisfied the offered load from the networks
subscribed to the NSFNET Backbone Service.
We have upgraded the router cards and DSUs at this point, to stay
ahead of the growth curve. Incoming traffic as measured in packets,
which is the currency of routers, doubles every 10 months or so. In
November 1993 there were soem 53 billion incoming packets as opposed
to 21 billion in November 1992, one year earlier.
By the way, from an engineering perspective, the bigger issue is the
packets-per-second (pps) load, and less so the speed of the pipe.
The new router adapter cards have doubled the pps rate, in addition to
supporting full T3 bandwidth. These are orthogonal features --
meaning that just because you go to T3, doesn't mean the router can
switch packets any faster. We have done both.
Peace,
-Ittai
