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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]
On Jul 5, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: On Jul 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, vijay gill wrote:Sure it does. The question is: "How far does it scale?" Nothing scales to infinity, and very, very few things do not scale past the degenerate case of 1.Throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling does not scale. You need to take into account all of the aspects of the complexity that you introduce when you throw that fiber over the wall tho. While the fiber installation is simple enough, you have now created other problems: who will maintain it? Who knows it is there? Who knows that it is there in the other organization? Who needs to know about it within your own organization? How is tracked? Who does the NOC call when it goes bad? While it may be a single exception to your network architecture, if it is an exception that 100 people need to know about, then I'd argue that it doesn't scale. The fun and games that we had in Ye Olden Days o' the Internet simply are not workable when you are coordinating with hundreds of other employees. Put another way, scalability can never overlook the human element. Tony
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