David Lang wrote: > Paul Graydon wrote: > The thing is that there is no such thing as a one-direction fiber, > and even the interfaces speeds are symmetrical once you get outside > of the last-mile. > > So it doesn't cost Verizon/Layer3/Netflix any more or less to have > the connections fully utilized in one direction and idle in the > other direction than to have them fully utilized in both directions.
Won't more traffic compete for resources on the connecting router? For example buffers (data-plane) and routing/forwarding resources (control plane)? Wouln't that affect throughput? Potentially cost more? -- Charles _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
