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> > > "Well-engineered" is a loaded term, and presumes unchanging routes are > always the best way to engineer a network. With ATM, MPLS and other > provider games the IP-level path may have very little to do with where > your packets go. perhaps my question was somewhat misleading... i was not implying that unchanging routes are good or bad. i was trying to understand with what confidence i can determine the IP route between two PoPs at any given instant. _well-engineered_ was meant to imply the isp has control over their network, and make controlled changes if required. thanks for the pointer. rajesh. > What you are looking for is the work done at MERIT and later the Skitter > project at CAIDA. See www.caida.org for more infomation. > > > On Mon, 10 July 2000, Rajesh Talpade wrote: > > At the risk of making a possibly naive request, could > > someone point me to data on ISP network performance > > (routing stability, packet loss, latency) ? I am > > primarily interested in the first metric, and am > > trying to understand the relative stability of large, > > _well-engineered_ ISP networks. In other words, with > > what degree of confidence can I predict the IP-level > > path between two PoPs of a large ISP. Please note > > that I am not getting into the general Internet > > performance here. > > > > Somehow I get this feeling that the answer would be > > a fairly large...it depends ! It would be useful to > > understand the influencing factors as well. > > > > -- Rajesh R. Talpade [email protected] 973 829-4261 Telcordia Technologies
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