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Re: Agenda for next NANOG

  • From: Guy T Almes
  • Date: Tue Sep 03 09:38:48 1996 
Randy,
  There is a cluster of closely-related variants on the issue
you raise:
[] to what extent does a given exchange point (NAP/MAE/etc) constrain
   the performance that a user sees (in what a user thinks of as end-
   to-end).  For example, an FTP could flow at 800 kb/s for a given
   pair of users, except that MAE-north is congested, so the FTP can
   only flow at 400 kb/s.
[] to what extent does a given exchange point constrain the performance
   that a provider sees (in what a provider thinks of as end-to-end).
   For example, a given pair of backbones could sustain 20 Mb/s over a
   private interconnect with acceptable packet loss, but can only sustain
   10 Mb/s over the Altoona NAP.