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Re: Ungodly packet loss rates

  • From: Kent W. England
  • Date: Tue Oct 22 15:43:06 1996 
At 04:49 PM 21-10-96 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

If you want a private interconnect to avoid having to deal with 100 peering
requests per week from every Tom, Dick and Harriet's web page services, OK.

But there isn't any gee-whiz technology that you can do at a private
interconnect
that you can't do at a NAP/MAE. Open NAPs aren't bad engineering.

--Kent
speaking as a consultant to PacBell NAP services

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