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Re: hotel networks, was One of our own in the Guardian.
From: joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:32:33 -0700
On 7/14/13 7:22 AM, John Levine wrote:
Simply put they were'nt designed and built to be operated with 100% concurrency. Short of some kind of exceptional contractual arrangement you shouldn't expect them to be different when you arrive then when the facility was contracted.I suspect the problem is the (offsite) hotel that Mark and I are at was not really prepared for a full house of folks interested in viewing streams, downloading documents, etc. (despite attempts to inform the hotel of the impending tsunami). I imagine folks involved in setting up NANOG-related networks might be familiar with this sort of situation...I've talked to people who do conference arrangements, and no matter what you tell the hotel, the hotel talks to their outsourced Internet provider, who tells them it will be fine, which of course it will not be. The hotel outsourcers also tend to have poorly trained staff who think that the way to increase wifi capacity is to turn the power on all of the APs up to 11.
Building a network for a week is expensive. it's gotten a lot simpler and cheaper but it's still relatively extrodinary. Taking over existing infrastructure operating it and putting it back is a new challenge everytime.The IETF deals with this problem by writing into the conference agreement that their netops people will take over the hotel's network for the duration of the meeting, and bring in their own adequate backhaul. Dunno what ICANN does.
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- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Mike Lyon (Jul 13)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. shawn wilson (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Scott Howard (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Mark Seiden (Jul 13)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. David Conrad (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. shawn wilson (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Bill Woodcock (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. shawn wilson (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. David Conrad (Jul 14)
- Re: hotel networks, was One of our own in the Guardian. John Levine (Jul 14)
- Re: hotel networks, was One of our own in the Guardian. joel jaeggli (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Constantine A. Murenin (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Warren Bailey (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Jeff Kell (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Joly MacFie (Jul 14)
- Re: One of our own in the Guardian. Jeff Kell (Jul 14)
- RE: One of our own in the Guardian. John van Oppen (Jul 15)