RE: Internet Backbone Index
Interesting enough, Take this little tidbit. The methodology in general was performance testing of the backbone's web site. (Which in itself is probably an accurate measurement goal for the level of subscribers to that magazine) However, Nap.Net's web site was sitting behind a Fractional T1 off of our chicago node while the web page was being overhauled during this test period. So, the rating for Nap.Net reflects a Fractional (actually 22 channels) T1 performance. This is interesting in the light that Nap.Net still scored above the average and the median. Chris ---------- From: Sean Donelan[SMTP:SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 1997 5:34 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Internet Backbone Index I guess it was only a matter of time. The Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index http://www.keynote.com/measures/backbones/backbones.html I'm not going to comment on the methodology flaws, but it does show what will fill the information gap. I do like the line "The world's fastest network provides good service to its users only if it does a good job of connecting to the rest of the Internet." Unfortunately I don't think this study really shows that. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
Is the NAP.NET web server still a 90MHz Pentium running BSDI? Chris A. Icide wrote:
Interesting enough,
Take this little tidbit. The methodology in general was performance testing of the backbone's web site. (Which in itself is probably an accurate measurement goal for the level of subscribers to that magazine) However, Nap.Net's web site was sitting behind a Fractional T1 off of our chicago node while the web page was being overhauled during this test period. So, the rating for Nap.Net reflects a Fractional (actually 22 channels) T1 performance. This is interesting in the light that Nap.Net still scored above the average and the median.
Chris
---------- From: Sean Donelan[SMTP:SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 1997 5:34 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Internet Backbone Index
I guess it was only a matter of time. The Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index
http://www.keynote.com/measures/backbones/backbones.html
I'm not going to comment on the methodology flaws, but it does show what will fill the information gap. I do like the line "The world's fastest network provides good service to its users only if it does a good job of connecting to the rest of the Internet." Unfortunately I don't think this study really shows that. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
-- Joseph T. Klein | mailto:jtk@titania.net Chief of Development | http://www.titania.net
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
Is the NAP.NET web server still a 90MHz Pentium running BSDI?
Chris A. Icide wrote:
Interesting enough,
Does it REALLY matter?!?! As long as it ain't some MS product clogging the lan with needless broadcasts and it's big enough to service those that are ignorant to think a national provider's web site *IS* a measure of their backbone/service.... BSDI is a damn fine product!
I would think that as long as he's got some UN*X variant/flavor on there, that a p90 would be enough. Now, had he put Microsoft NT/IIS on there, it probably wouldn't be able to handle the os, much less running web services. You'd be suprised at how silly a UN*X flavor can make an NT box look when you compare them side by side. Hell, I know someone that runs 4 heavily traveled non-profit websites on a 486sx33 with 4 megs of ram and a couple of megs of hardrive space running FreeBSD. They get a couple a decent amount of hits a day, and never even burp. When people find out that it's only a 486sx33, they are usually quite impressed. All I can say is that you could not do that with a microsoft product. Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services "Learn more, and you will never starve." - Paraphrase of Lee I know this is slightly off topic, and I'll stop right here... Hope everyone else has the sense to do the same. On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
Is the NAP.NET web server still a 90MHz Pentium running BSDI?
Chris A. Icide wrote:
Interesting enough,
Take this little tidbit. The methodology in general was performance testing of the backbone's web site. (Which in itself is probably an accurate measurement goal for the level of subscribers to that magazine) However, Nap.Net's web site was sitting behind a Fractional T1 off of our chicago node while the web page was being overhauled during this test period. So, the rating for Nap.Net reflects a Fractional (actually 22 channels) T1 performance. This is interesting in the light that Nap.Net still scored above the average and the median.
Chris
---------- From: Sean Donelan[SMTP:SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 1997 5:34 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Internet Backbone Index
I guess it was only a matter of time. The Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index
http://www.keynote.com/measures/backbones/backbones.html
I'm not going to comment on the methodology flaws, but it does show what will fill the information gap. I do like the line "The world's fastest network provides good service to its users only if it does a good job of connecting to the rest of the Internet." Unfortunately I don't think this study really shows that. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
-- Joseph T. Klein | mailto:jtk@titania.net Chief of Development | http://www.titania.net
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