In a message written on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:11:14AM -0600, Andy Walden wrote:
What would work better/faster?
my-noc -> b0rken-noc
or
my-noc -> my-upstream-noc -> b0rken-noc-upstream-noc -> b0rken-noc
Work better for who? For you? Sure. For a any provider that needs to provide quality services to its customers and follow processes to do so, not a chance. The Big Picture is key here.
Note that in both cases, b0rken-noc takes a single call, so their load is unchanged. The second case adds a call to both my-upstream-noc, and b0rken-noc-upstream-noc. It would seem going direct would put a lower load on NOC's in general, which presumably would let them spend more time on problems and provide better service. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org