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Danny Stroud <[email protected]> wrote: >What I meant was that the demand for traffic seems >to be growing faster than technologies ability to deliver it. Even with the >planned *new* technologies, I am predicting that there will be a point where >the traffic of the exchange points will need to bifurcate simply to be able to >process the load, i.e. more *smaller* exchange points all running at top >capacity of the available technology. There's at least one way to make IXPs to handle nearly arbitrary amount of traffic; so this is not a fundamental problem. It's only a matter of time and money. http://www.pluris.com explains how it can be done. In other words, traffic is not the problem. It is more economical to have fewer high-capacity facilities instead of a zillion of lower capacity ones. BTW, the number of switch sites LDCs have is a lot less than the number of their POPs, for exactly that reason. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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