OK, you can color me a NAP apologist. As a NAP operator I don't have the resources at my disposal to conduct the suggested tests. (A couple of DEC Alpha or other capable workstations attached to the NAP media would be a nice asset.) However, as a L2 network operator I would be VERY interested in learning of my customers' perception of the service provided. Steve At 12:51 8.30.96, Vince Fuller wrote:
Are there other topics you'd like to hear about?
How about
Analysis of Actual End to End Performance accross the NAPs/MAEs
To be given by each operator?
(as opposed to "everything is wonderful because we dropped no packets across ten feet of level-2 wire")
An excellent topic, to be sure, but how do you propose that this be measured?
About the only thing NAP operators can directly gather and report upon is the "ten feet of level-2 wire".
And before anyone color me a NAP apologist (I'm certainly not, as some interconnect operators can probably attest), this is a serious question, not an excuse for any poor performance that _may_ have been observed at interconnects.
--Vince
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