Re: MAE West

[Owen DeLong]

> > At 11:38 PM 7/13/97 -0700, Stephen Stuart wrote:
> > >As Lance Tatman pointed out, load-balancing only works between
> > >circuits joining the same two switches. This would certainly be a
> > >factor in planning what kind of wide-area connectivity to use to join
> > >two groups of switches. A single 400Mb/s aggregate might perform much
> > >better than a pair of 200Mb/s aggregates.
> > 
> > 	Better performance, but worse reliability?
> > 
> > 	The single 400Mb/s is, after all, a single point of failure, no?
> > 
> > d/
> 
> To true.  Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s
> to build in better reliability?  It appears that the owners/operators of
> MAE-West are selecting an optimization path based on the assumption that
> outages are infrequent and can be quickly corrected.
> 
> --bill
> 
Both assumputions have been repeatedly proven false BY MFS.

Owen