Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:43 PM, Shane Ronan wrote:

> I think it depends on the industry you are in, in the financial  
> industry, no one uses MPLS clouds or VPN's over the Internet,  
> everyone uses either 1G or 10G links.

I think Jack's point was that many 1G and 10G "links" are really just  
MPLS tunnels through someone else's backbone.

And even if not, they are certainly sharing the same ADMs, fibers,  
regen huts, etc.

"Shared infrastructure" has taken on a whole new meaning.

--
TTFN,
patrick


> On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> > Stefan wrote:
> > > hmmm ...
> > > http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
> >
> > Hmmm. "that leased lines and private WANs that your company can  
> > monitor and control from end to end make it easier to retain and  
> > improve network performance than relying on the Internet"
> >
> > Are 10G leased lines (or even 1G) and private WANs common these  
> > days without using MPLS or some form of resource shared with  
> > Internet traffic? And what is the point without the ability to  
> > communicate with others? I thought we were well past isolated  
> > networks.
> >
> > -Jack