BBN/GTEI - Optical Internet solves asymmetric data flows

Mon Aug 24 19:59:22 UTC 1998

All:

The issue of asymmetric data flows is one of the reasons why we are building
an optical Internet here in Canada.  With an optical Internet you can
traffic engineer individual wavelengths to support Tx/Rx asymmetric data
flows in any way you want. This makes much more efficient use of the
underlying fiber indrastructure.

For more information

www.canarie.ca
www.canet2.net

Bill

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Bill St Arnaud
Director Network Projects
CANARIE
bill.st.arnaud at canarie.ca
http://www.canarie.ca/bstarn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Michael Dillon
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 1998 7:44 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: BBN/GTEI
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> > > > In fact, what you're advocating is billing the sender for
> *solicited data*
> > > > from the recipient's point of view!
> > >
> > > Not at all. I am advocating paying for transit.
> >
> > On the contrary.
> >
> > If I buy a DS1 for transit from your network, I'm expecting the
> person I pay
> > to provide transit - ALL OF THE TRANSIT.
>
> Of course, and I agree with you 100%. But I was not talking about a
> transit customer. I was talking about a peer whose traffic interchange is
> asymmetric and who therefore uses some regional transit in the other guy's
> network. I'm saying that instead of slamming the door in his face and
> telling him to buy transit, we need to have a scalable peering option that
> is a blend.
>
> Maybe I am headed in the wrong direction with this but I do believe we
> need a better solution for peering with asymmetric peers that reduces the
> barriers to entry to $$$. Right now there are barriers to entry that
> probably will not pass the scrutiny of the DOJ.
>
> > No, its actually becoming MORE suitable.  Instead of burning the entire
> > circuit in both directions, you're only burning half of it now (one
> > direction).
>
> You still have to pay for the whole circuit.
>
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