At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.
Better performance, but worse reliability?
The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?
d/
To true. Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s to build in better reliability? It appears that the owners/operators of MAE-West are selecting an optimization path based on the assumption that outages are infrequent and can be quickly corrected.
--bill
Both assumputions have been repeatedly proven false BY MFS. Owen