North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: sprint passes uu?
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:25:21PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Well.. yeah.. but my hypothetical 64 /8's are twice address space than > your hypothetical 2,097,152 /24's. Of course, but it's still a metric I see getting tossed about. > About the only conclusion that you can *safely* draw is that Sprint has > a more complicated network than UU does. Now *hopefully*, they have > more customers too, or the Sprint backbone engineers will have to carry > a much higher complexity/customer ratio, which means when the senior > engineers finally snap under the pressure, we'll get junior engineers > making weird work-arounds that will just complicate things 5 years down > the road. Or that they peer with even less people than UU does, and force people to buy transit. But it makes an interesting point about that mythical "50% of the internet" people talk about with regards to Worldcom, a lot of it is the same routes, and the amount of single homed customers is a lot less. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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