nanog mailing list archives
Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
From: rs () seastrom com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 10 Aug 2002 10:24:54 -0400
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se> writes:
On 10 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:why on god's earth would subsecond anything matter in a nonmilitary situation?It does when you start doing streaming anything, say TV or telephony. I
I submit that it doesn't matter for voice or video, if the MTBF is reasonably high. Consider the reliability that people put up with from their cable companies, and the voice quality that we accept from our (North American) cell phones, not to mention the dropped calls. Streaming video and VOIP is an order of magnitude better in my experience without doing anything special. I hate to come across (particularly in this forum) as an advocate of purely market-driven engineering, you have to ask yourself what you're buying if you're spending money to fix a problem that your customers don't (and won't) perceive as such. Remember the words of Admiral Gorshkov, who is variously quoted as having said: "(Better,Perfect) is the enemy of good enough." ---Rob
Current thread:
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?, (continued)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Nenad Trifunovic (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Petri Helenius (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Paul Vixie (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Petri Helenius (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Paul Vixie (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mike Hughes (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? cowie (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Petri Helenius (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Jared Mauch (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Vadim Antonov (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? David Diaz (Aug 11)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Paul Vixie (Aug 11)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Stephen Sprunk (Aug 12)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 10)