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Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: Stephen Fulton <sf () lists esoteric ca>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:11:24 -0400
In $dayjob I constantly see the lack of understanding of the difference between what the Internet is and what a path engineered private circuit is (eg. pseudowire, wave, whatever). The latest fight is over SD-WAN and those who think it will replace MPLS entirely and they won't need those expensive routers anymore. But I digress.
Mark's comment and others like it are the correct approach Mike. If your private WAN is most critical, then invest in and manage user complaints about poor Internet service. ISP's, IXP's and CDN's are not going to twist themselves into knots to solve your problems, even if someone calls it an emergency. Sorry.
Stephen On 2020-03-15 02:01, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 14/Mar/20 19:14, Mike Bolitho wrote:/ /I work for a hospital, we ran into some issues last week due to congestion that was totally outside of our control that was off of our WAN (Thanks Call Of Duty). Now, the issue we ran into was not mission critical at the time but it was still disruptive. As more and more people are driven home during this time, more and more people will be using bandwidth intensive streaming and online gaming products. If more and more TSP coded entities are running into issues, ISPs, IXPs, and CDNs will be forced to act.Hmmh, if that level of priority is required, I'd probably build my own network, and not rely on public infrastructure like the Internet.Mark.
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- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks, (continued)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Alexandre Petrescu (Mar 14)
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- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Clayton Zekelman (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Hugo Slabbert (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Livingood, Jason (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Ca By (Mar 16)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 14)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Stephen Fulton (Mar 15)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Carsten Bormann (Mar 16)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Bolitho (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)