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> Not that simple -- some folks at MAE-E already have > their DS-3s saturated. > > --vadim > Also, I explained the Cisco route retraction bug/feature and > that most of the packet loss that's not caused by total port > outages is due to limited provisioning of bandwidth into the > exchanges, not due to exchange fabrics losing packets or > routers dropping packets due to anything but wan link saturation. > In general, that is :) > > Avi So more routers & more wan links are required by those providers, no? I didn't say it's easy to do, but it's not impossible either. Load-balance external peering, and either load-balance wan links or pull the wan links to different locations. MCI said they plan on increasing dramatically the # of pipes they have to the public exchange points... Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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