Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)

On Oct 21, "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org> wrote:

Then perhaps it might of interest to start a meta discussion about problems of scalability of Gigaswitch based exchange points as well as possible future direction of such large exchange points?

Gigabit Ethernet as a backbone technology -- too little, too late. IMO, betting on physical media speeds keeping up with traffic is silly. Actually, there is at least one known way to build an exchange point which scales nearly indefinitely. We're working on making it real. Other folks may have other ideas. --vadim