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Re: Ungodly packet loss rates

  • From: Jon Zeeff
  • Date: Mon Oct 21 20:41:58 1996 
> > In other words, the big players don't like the "open" naps and 
> > are deliberately not installing sufficient bandwidth to them?
> 
> No, the open NAP's are bad engineering and the big players are fixing the
> topology by routing around them.

But people keep claiming that some naps are well engineered and have 
excess capacity and that the problem is the size of the pipes leading 
to them.  Adding more pipes is easy enough, leading to the conclusion 
that there are other factors at play.  

> Visualize a typical garden spiderweb. All the main strands lead to the

But a spiderweb is for trapping things.  Visualize Federal Express and 
their "super nap" model for moving packages.  

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