Re: MAE West

[owen () DeLong SJ CA US (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