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RE: Exchanges that matter...
From: Vadim Antonov <avg () pluris com>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:40:11 -0800
Danny Stroud <dannystroud () msn com> wrote:
What I meant was that the demand for traffic seems to be growing faster than technologies ability to deliver it. Even with the planned *new* technologies, I am predicting that there will be a point where the traffic of the exchange points will need to bifurcate simply to be able to process the load, i.e. more *smaller* exchange points all running at top capacity of the available technology.
There's at least one way to make IXPs to handle nearly arbitrary amount of traffic; so this is not a fundamental problem. It's only a matter of time and money. http://www.pluris.com explains how it can be done. In other words, traffic is not the problem. It is more economical to have fewer high-capacity facilities instead of a zillion of lower capacity ones. BTW, the number of switch sites LDCs have is a lot less than the number of their POPs, for exactly that reason. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alec H. Peterson (Dec 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Danny Stroud (Dec 03)
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Todd Graham Lewis (Dec 04)
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Danny Stroud (Dec 04)
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Todd Graham Lewis (Dec 04)
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Todd Graham Lewis (Dec 04)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 04)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Jim Dixon (Dec 04)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 04)
- RE: Exchanges that matter... Todd Graham Lewis (Dec 04)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 05)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Jim Dixon (Dec 05)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 05)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Joe Rhett (Dec 07)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Nathan Stratton (Dec 07)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Alec H. Peterson (Dec 08)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Nathan Stratton (Dec 08)
- Re: Exchanges that matter... Jeremy Porter (Dec 08)