Nathan Stratton writes:
The delay at MAE-East is because some larger providers have just 1 DS3 connection when they need more. The gigaswitch can do almost 1000 times what it is doing now. The OC-3s that are connecting the gigaswitches together also have plenty of room on them.
That was not the point he was trying to make. The fact that mae-east is the busiest peering point should be a reason to stay _away_ from it and try to spread the bandwidth load around to other peering points. The busier mae-east gets, the more trouble the entire net gets into when it blows up (which has been known to happen). You have said many times that the gigaswitch is not anywhere near capacity, and you are probably right. However, what you repeatedly forget to realize is that there are many other factors that need to be considered. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - chuckie@panix.com | Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX| |Network Administrator | New York City, NY | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+