State of the Internet:NAPs:MAE-East (and others)
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MAE STATUS
- MAE-EAST
- 70 active connections (58 from the last NANOG) (60 ISPs)
- 340 Mbps Gigaswith Utilization (230 at last NANOG)
- 75 Mbps on shared FDDI (same as last NANOG)
- MAE-WEST
- 52 active connections (36 at last NANOG)
- >180 Mbps [hard to measure ATM port traffic on Gigaswitch](was 90-100 Mbps in Feb)
- 75 Mbps on shared FDDI (was 50 Mbps at last NANOG)
- OC-3C between MFS and Ames (not saturated)
- There is plans for a second parallel link
- Other MAEs
- Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Los Angeles are operational.
- (Paris and New York are coming. NYC is on 8th Avenue.)
- There are no current plans for Atlanta.
Architecture
Very similar to Sprint NAP.
Another Gigaswitch will be added to MAE-EAST in the next couple of weeks.
Performance
Stats published each night on the web.
Raw data will be available RSN.
Plenty of switch capacity left. The limit is the available number of ports.
Challenges
- Avoiding Bottlenecks
- MAE-WEST interconnect was an example (now fixed)
- Co-location
- The demand far exceeded the supply. MFS thinks they have it down now.
- Bridging
- Bridges fail in interesting and unique ways. There is now
list of things not to do (particularly preventing bridging loops)
- Transition from Experiment to Product
- Installation is standard and maintenance can be handled by
the operations group and the sales folks can sell it
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