Re: Shortest path to the world

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen () unfix org>]

Sean Donelan wrote:
> The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest
> latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every
> nation in the world?  As you increase the number of locations, how do
> the choices change?
>
> If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of locations, where would they
> be?

Depends completely on what the data is and why you want to send them
from A to B and if A and B are inside your network or not etc etc etc etc.

aka ETOOMANYVARIABLES.

> And what data do you have to prove the choices are best?

Depends of course on what you want to 'prove'

But things that come into mind are possibly:
 - Netflow/sFlow and other such data
 - latency tests (simple pings from A to B to global services
   that check latency, eg RIPE TTM boxes)
 - Cost for circuits
 - and lots lots more.

It all depends, thus also how you combine the above ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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