Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up

Fri May 1 03:43:04 UTC 2009

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.

On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote:

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> Stefan wrote:
>> hmmm ...
>> http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/2009/04/so_this_is_what_the_australian.html
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> 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"
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> 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.
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> -Jack
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