Transit over the MFS meet points as a product?
Rumor has it that MFS is planning to release a "product" that will provide an official way to provide transit through their meet points. From what I've heard, it will be offered through MFS meet point customers current interfaces. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I had some thoughts myself: If this happens, will MFS attempt to police the meet point and force anyone who is currently providing "transit" to purchase and user this "product"? Will it change/worsen the performance of the heavier traffic sites by "stealing" customers from the larger traffic sources, and then dumping traffic upon those already overloaded circuits making the HoLB problem all the worse? Does anyone really care whether or not transit is sold over the MFS meet points, and if so, what are the operation concerns? Chris A. Icide Nap.Net, L.L.C.
Does anyone really care whether or not transit is sold over the MFS meet points, and if so, what are the operation concerns?
There are definitely operational considerations - whether it's for peering or for transit, MFS needs to know whether switch A/port 2 is sending 10mb of uni- or bi-directional traffic to switch X/port M in order to balance their switch loads well...
Chris A. Icide Nap.Net, L.L.C.
Avi
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Avi Freedman wrote:
There are definitely operational considerations - whether it's for peering or for transit, MFS needs to know whether switch A/port 2 is sending 10mb of uni- or bi-directional traffic to switch X/port M in order to balance their switch loads well...
MFS is already doing some amount of interprovider flow analysis. This information is used to decide on when and where to add trunks between the Gigaswitches as well as the impact of moving high load users between switches. Mike. +------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ | Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | | Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | | mleber@he.net http://www.he.net | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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