-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Deepak! you raise some interesting points from bw standpoint. what really got me scratching my head is the fact that throwing bw to conserve computing power. in this cat and mouse game, mouse always wins :-) "The OptiPuter project aims at learning how to 'waste' bandwidth and storage in order to conserve 'scarce' computing in this new world of inverted values," said Smarr. i'm not even sure why even implement mpls where latency/congestion is not an issue specially in this case or even talking about I2 for that matter. regards, /vicky Deepak Jain wrote: | Vicky, I apologize if I am hijacking your thread. | | Is it just me or does all this talk of Research (and other Public | Interest) Networks and logical separation by layer 1/2 leave [everyone] | nonplussed? | | How is logical separation of a network [say via MPLS] much different | than using a lambda to do the same thing? It seems kind of dumb to me | that a network that is spending the money to buy capacity is selling a | 2.5G or 10G wave to universities as any kind of improvement... I'm not | even sure they could do it at a better price than a desperate telco that | is selling the underlying fiber in the first place. | | Engineering idea: All the constituent folks do the same network, but | build it as a single logical network, with say all 40x10G Lambdas on it. | Everyone is given a 2.5G or 10G MPLS tunnel with the ability to use all | unused bandwidth that is available on the network at that time... That | would at least have some legs and create some value for having more | membership. | | This smacks me as similar to Philadelphia wanting to deploy universal | WiFi and charging $20-$25/month for it -- a free network to the city | makes sense, afterall they pay taxes -- a psuedo-commercial service, | what's the point? Do these government (and other so-called Public | Interest) networks really make sense in the U.S. or is everyone still | stuck in a timewarp when/where the NSFnet made sense because no one | (commercially) could/would step up to perform the same function. | | Hopefully there is some operational content in there... If you don't see | an on-list response from me, you probably know why. | | Deepak Jain | AiNET | | Vicky wrote: | |> |>http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=53700951 |> |> | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBpOqspbZvCIJx1bcRAtonAJsH2dJLmQo+OpB5q/bcl/iOsCQt1wCeM+rQ sM0+tPS3yN+nCrl5y0iA7KM= =R/vP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----