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Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:48:57 -0400
I'm implying that a 7600 with non-OSM doesn't have more than a few ms of buffers making a single highspeed TCP stream go into saw-tooth performance mode via it's congestion mechanism being triggered by packet loss instead of via change in RTT. Yes, the GSR/juniper with often 500+ ms buffers are often of no use in todays world, but it's nice to have 25ms buffers anyway, so TCP has some
I hate following up on my own message, so I'm following up on this. A point just raised privately was that *IF* you need the buffers you could just OSM the ports under stress [say the ones dedicated to the 1 or 2 expensive WAN links you may want to run near their top]. Considering a 4 port GE-WAN OSM is $800 on Ebay, I don't see how its even a pricing consideration.
DJ
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- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit, (continued)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit John Curran (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Joe Provo (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Vincent J. Bono (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Andre Oppermann (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Petri Helenius (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Niels Bakker (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)