I want my provider to have no oversubscription within the metro area. Gear is too cheap not to. Beyond the metro, I expect oversubscription, but I also expect excellent performance. They can usually dump the traffic off to someone else within the metro, so they don't need 1:1 leaving the city. However, with more than more customers ordering several 10GigE interfaces, the longhaul is getting full.
http://www.att.com/Common/merger/files/pdf/wired-network/Domestic_0C-768_Network.pdf This is obviously an old map, but according to it, AT&T had 9x 40Gig connections out of Chicago as of 2008, in addition to all of their other longhaul circuits. Verizon started using 100Gig links in production networks last month. http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/verizon-deploys-commercial.html One web host has 160 gigs of outside connectivity in Chicago alone. Enough of my rambling... ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "John Thomas" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:59 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > Kinda sounds like a WISP, eh? As long as they aren't overselling it to > the point quality suffers, who cares? We had to work at just doing a > speed test on our 100 meg connection as most of the servers couldn't do > 100 meg up and 100 meg down. We finally were able to do a ftp and get 95 > meg/95 meg to verify that it was working as advertised. I still smile > when I can do traceroutes to cities miles away and have all the hops at > 1 ms, or less when using Linux. > > John > > Justin Wilson wrote: >> Plus they want to oversell this cheap bandwidth. They don¹t want you >> to >> max out that Gig circuit. Allows them to oversell their bandwidth that >> much >> more. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
