State of the Internet: Exchange Point Operators: The MAE's
Table of Contents
- Gigaswitch Issues
- Head-of-Line Blocking
- Traffic gets dropped on the flow when it should not be.
- System Fragility
- A small change can cause the whole system to fail
- Scalability
- What’s beyond FDDI?
- Lots of customers have multiple ports
- Control
- Resource allocation, Policy Control
- In a LAN environment, every one can talk to everyone else and it’s difficult to limit the amount of data they are sent.
- The current architecture is a hierarchy of Gigaswitches.
- There is a little packet loss at MAE-WEST
- We are moving to ATM
- It's gotten mature enough
- We believe we understand it.
- The first one will be MAE-CENTRAL.
- We expect to treat it like a TDM with CBR circuits.
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