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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Atlanta-NAP's choice of switch
At 08:12 PM 10/26/96 -0700, Jonathan Heiliger wrote: >On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Darin Wayrynen wrote: >What else would you suggest? Gigabit Ethernet hasn't been standardized >yet, Cisco doesn't make a HIPPI interface, and some people prefer to not >use ATM. FDDI has proven to very reliable, etc. Having ISPs continue to >grow egress bandwidth has shown to be a bigger problem than the switch >fabric at the larger exchange points. HIPPI would probably make a poor technology to build a NAP out of. The set-up time that the HIPPI-SC protocol takes to set up a connection introduces too much latency for small packets. While HIPPI works great for large bulk data transfers (using tuned applications, including tuned ftp implementations), I think the performance would be pretty poor when it came to exchanging tinygrams between NSPs. HIPPI might be better than full duplex FDDI, but something like OC12 ATM may be better, even after considering the packet-shredding factor... --zawada Paul J. Zawada, RCDD | Senior Network Engineer [email protected] | National Center for Supercomputing Applications +1 217 244 4728 | http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/zawada - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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