On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
Stefan wrote:
hmmm ...
http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australia...
Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can monitor and control from end to end make it easier to retain and improve network performance than relying on the Internet"
Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these days without using MPLS or some form of resource shared with Internet traffic? And what is the point without the ability to communicate with others? I thought we were well past isolated networks.
-Jack
The point of the blog I quoted was that things are not only black, or only white (as some have been tempted to judge - i.e. completely bashing the original article). To your point - we need to communicate with others (Internet - non QoS ...), of course, but the critical production traffic runs for some on top of fully monitored (not necessarily controlled!) networks ... still ... -- ***Stefan http://twitter.com/netfortius