Danny Stroud <dannystroud@msn.com> wrote:
What I meant was that the demand for traffic seems to be growing faster than technologies ability to deliver it. Even with the planned *new* technologies, I am predicting that there will be a point where the traffic of the exchange points will need to bifurcate simply to be able to process the load, i.e. more *smaller* exchange points all running at top capacity of the available technology.
There's at least one way to make IXPs to handle nearly arbitrary amount of traffic; so this is not a fundamental problem. It's only a matter of time and money. http://www.pluris.com explains how it can be done. In other words, traffic is not the problem. It is more economical to have fewer high-capacity facilities instead of a zillion of lower capacity ones. BTW, the number of switch sites LDCs have is a lot less than the number of their POPs, for exactly that reason. --vadim