27 May
1999
27 May
'99
9:47 p.m.
Tony Li <tony1@home.net> wrote:
There's a better solution: decrease the number of nodes by replacing clusters with bigger boxes. This has an additional advantage of reducing number of hops (and, consequently, latency variance).
Certainly that helps, but as we move forward you still end up with lots of boxes in the network simply because you're in many different geographic locations.
Well, actually it is not that bad. The biggest number of locations is probably found in AT&T phone network - 250 or so. Sprint is in few dozen. The existing IGPs are quite happy with that kind of complexity, so if you belong to the "one-router-per-POP" school of thought the IGP complexity is a non-issue. --vadim