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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
At 12:33 10/23/96, Robert Laughlin wrote: >As one who is living this senerio on a daily basis, I can tell you it's >frustrating and upsetting. We have gone so far as to test the legality >of what is happening (there *must* be someone we can sue <grin>). Public >peering works well these days as the large networks move their traffic >off the NAPs, freeing up bandwidth for the mid to smaller networks. > >The model that makes sense to me, is for the largest networks to exchange >traffic through private interconnects, and for them to treat the >aggregated NAP traffic as another large ISP. The NAP is then used for the >2nd tier and smaller providers to exchange traffic with each other, as >well as a collection point to gather up traffic for the large networks. Interesting model: presuming that the "aggregating exchange point" had a sizable backbone and could engage in shortest exit routing, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Of course, a _single_ exchange point can't meaningfully provide any benefit of shortest exit routing, and would probably be treated as an extremely large volume customer. /John - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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