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Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:00:22 -0400
On Jul 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, vijay gill wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:55:42AM -0700, joe mcguckin wrote:$5000 for an ethernet switch port? It makes me long for the days of throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling to informally peer with other networks in a
Throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling does not scale.
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.
If you s/ethernet cables/optical fibers/, it scales even further. Especially since this is not being used for all his traffic.
Not everyone needs a terabit of exit capacity. Guaranteeing everything you do is close to infinitely scalable is a Bad Idea for people who do not.
And even if you do need a terabit of exit capacity, nothing wrong with the occasional OC768 routed through the ceiling. :)
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?], (continued)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 03)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Bill Woodcock (Jul 04)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Steve Gibbard (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points Niels Bakker (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] joe mcguckin (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] vijay gill (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Patrick W Gilmore (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Tony Li (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Patrick W Gilmore (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Michael . Dillon (Jul 06)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Paul Vixie (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] vijay gill (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Paul Vixie (Jul 05)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Michael . Dillon (Jul 06)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Leo Bicknell (Jul 06)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] vijay gill (Jul 06)
- Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 06)