few big monolithic PEs vs many small PEs

Fri Jun 28 05:59:19 UTC 2019

On 28/Jun/19 01:23, Mike Hammett wrote:

> I've ran into many providers where they had routers in the top 10 or
> 15 markets...  and that was it. If you wanted a connection in South
> Bend or Indianapolis or New Orleans or Ohio or...  you were backhauled
> potentially hundreds of miles to a nearby big market.
>
> More smaller POPs reduces the tromboning.
>
> More smaller POPs means that one POP's outage isn't as disastrous on
> the traffic rerouting around it.

I really dislike centralized routing.

Mark.
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