concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

Tue Jul 6 00:35:50 UTC 2004

On Jul 5, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:

>
> On Jul 5, 2004, at 2:02 PM, vijay gill wrote:
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>> Throwing ethernet cables over the ceiling does not scale.
>
> Sure it does.  The question is: "How far does it scale?"  Nothing 
> scales to infinity, and very, very few things do not scale past the 
> degenerate case of 1.
>

You need to take into account all of the aspects of the complexity that 
you introduce when you
throw that fiber over the wall tho.  While the fiber installation is 
simple enough, you have
now created other problems:  who will maintain it?  Who knows it is 
there?  Who knows that it
is there in the other organization?  Who needs to know about it within 
your own organization?
How is tracked?  Who does the NOC call when it goes bad?

While it may be a single exception to your network architecture, if it 
is an exception that
100 people need to know about, then I'd argue that it doesn't scale.  
The fun and games
that we had in Ye Olden Days o' the Internet simply are not workable 
when you are coordinating
with hundreds of other employees.

Put another way, scalability can never overlook the human element.

Tony