Re: ISP performance

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

"Well-engineered" is a loaded term, and presumes unchanging routes are
always the best way to engineer a network.  With ATM, MPLS and other
provider games the IP-level path may have very little to do with where
your packets go.

What you are looking for is the work done at MERIT and later the Skitter
project at CAIDA.  See www.caida.org for more infomation.


On Mon, 10 July 2000, Rajesh Talpade wrote:
> At the risk of making a possibly naive request, could 
> someone point me to data on ISP network performance 
> (routing stability, packet loss, latency) ? I am 
> primarily interested in the first metric, and am 
> trying to understand the relative stability of large,
> _well-engineered_ ISP networks. In other words, with
> what degree of confidence can I predict the IP-level
> path between two PoPs of a large ISP. Please note 
> that I am not getting into the general Internet 
> performance here.
>
> Somehow I get this feeling that the answer would be
> a fairly large...it depends ! It would be useful to
> understand the influencing factors as well.