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> At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote: > >As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between > >circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a > >factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join > >two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much > >better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates. > > Better performance, but worse reliability? > > The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no? > > d/ To true. Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s to build in better reliability? It appears that the owners/operators of MAE-West are selecting an optimization path based on the assumption that outages are infrequent and can be quickly corrected. --bill
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