Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

Stephen Wilcox steve.wilcox at packetrade.com
Fri Aug 17 10:57:04 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:07:31AM -0700, Hex Star wrote:
>    How does akamai handle traffic congestion so seamlessly? Perhaps we should
>    look at existing setups implemented by companies such as akamai for
>    guidelines regarding how to resolve this kind of issue...

and if you are a Content Delivery Network wishing to use a cache deployment architecture you should do just that ... but for networks with big backbones as per this discussion we need to do something else

Steve



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