Re: sprint passes uu?

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:25:21PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu 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.

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