Ungodly packet loss rates

Tue Oct 22 23:11:37 UTC 1996

   > While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
   > there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
   > networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.

   Sure there is.  Running one larger interconnect has the potential to
   be much less expensive and easier to run than many smaller ones.
   Economy of scale...

That's simply a fallacy.  One larger interconnect assumes that the
cost of aggregate bandwidth scales linearly, when it fact it's clearly
super-linear and may well be exponential.  This becomes worse as supporting
the aggregate bandwidth exceeds commodity media technology.

Tony