I suspect that they will be going completely switched and have very few total points on the whole network (depending on what configuration they go to). A network of OC12s or OC48s in a redundant star will have significant performance benefits because 1) no routing, or very symmetric routing. 2) very low latency <8ms coast to coast I'd suspect. 3) priority queues, quality of service, reserved bandwidth, etc. They could also use the BFR from Cisco whenever that comes out, which is supposed to do OC48 speeds :) I haven't read the Inet-2 information, so I don't know what kind of trunk lines they are using, but I am pretty sure they want interconnect speeds far faster than even multiple DS3 connects to each other, and they will tolerate whatever internet-1 performance they can get. I am not even touching the Mae-East at 30% fantasy. All I know is that the UUNet <--> Sprint OC3 private connect at Tysons Corner is at better than 24Mbits average and mostly limited to router CPU problems. -Deepak. On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Stephen Balbach wrote:
There is a "perception" of lack of bandwidth. MAE EAST is running at %30 capacity of a 100Mb switched FDDI. Figure there are about 30 providers each with 45Mb pipe - a bandwidth shortage does not add-up - There are many other metrics that effect performance besides bandwidth. How does Internet II solve the other sources of performance problems?
--- Stephen Balbach "Driving the Internet To Work" VP, ClarkNet due to the high volume of mail I receive please quote info@clark.net the full original message in your reply.