From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 20:21:22 GMT-3
At 7:00 PM -0400 7/2/04, Peter van Oene wrote:
>At 06:31 PM 7/2/2004, James wrote:
>>Hi Howard,
>>
>>By "backbones" I meant transit ISP backbones. Not enterprises..
>
>Clearly Howard meant enterprise backbones as you seem to agree.
>Debating his enterprise oriented strategy from an SP perspective
>isn't all that useful ;-)
True enough. With large enterprises, it is sometimes hard to draw the
line between enterprise and SP, but such large enterprises often have
a networking group (sometimes contract) that acts as a service
provider to the rest of the enterprise.
But yes, SPs are different. Even within SPs, there will be distinct
differences depending on how important traffic engineering and QoS
are -- whether your basic inter-AS model is hot potato or cold potato.
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