Re: MAE West

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com>]

At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between
> circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a
> factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join
> two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much
> better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.

        Better performance, but worse reliability?

        The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?

d/