On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:09:24 +0000 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
thanks to a few vendor engineers who implemented as skunkworks, to jay, you, and other large ops who have deployed, and to job who has taken over waving the pom poms, i am rather optimistic.
I concur. I asked our four major networks we (depaul.edu) had connectivity from if they supported ROV in early 2019. Cogent, HE.net, Internet2, and SeverCentral all said they do not and none had plans to deploy. Now two of those are doing some ROV. We've since replaced Zayo for Cogent and I asked them about it in late 2019. I know at least one of the remaining three is seriously looking at supporting it soon. Lots of reasons for the momentum, but two very noticeable reasons from my view were when AT&T announced their deployment and when Google got people worried about dropping routes. John