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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Selfish routing
> Yes but... I seem to recall a few things about the network you are > referring to (the "You are confused" is kindof a tip-off :P), and one of > those things was the complete and total meltdown with every fiber cut. That was a totally braindead design - claiming that no backup path is better than an ATM backup path is just silly. > Sometimes you can win the battle with quantity of service, and sometimes > you just don't have a choice in the matter... Why throw away the ability > to keep your network alive in the event of fiber cuts, DoS, or just the > realities of business, because of engineering religion... Agreed. However, claims "we have a special technology that magically avoids problems in the networks that we do not control" is the egineering religion. Alex
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