3 Aug
2021
3 Aug
'21
2:20 a.m.
Pierre,
You should not read too much into that remark that bandwidth is not the first concern.
I does not mean "we may as well have bad bandwidth and poor performance", but
rather that we are not
using that much bandwidth that we need to have the fastest connections and the fastest
routers.
At the moment our 44.137.0.0/16 gateway has a 1Gbit internet connection but it on average
uses only
about 30 Mbit/s with peaks of up to ~100 Mbit/s (in each direction). At this moment we
are busy moving
the servers to a different datacenter because the old one is going to close down, and
there we will
get 10 Gbit/s but the new datacenter offers us up to 100 Gbit/s. We have chosen not to go
that way for
now because our equipment has only up to 10 Gbit/s interfaces and going higher would mean
more
investment. I think that is not warranted at this time. Maybe if we would host a PoP in
a worldwide
backbone and would get connections from more countries. But at that time it can always be
changed.
This of course has no influence on latency, that is determined by physical location. We
will be next
to the AMS-IX.
Rob
On 8/3/21 12:48 AM, pete M via 44Net wrote:
I think that performance IS of prime concerne as much
as reliability and redundency (wich is the 2 face of a same problem)
Reliability with lack of performance will not fix our situation. adding hundreds of
milisecond to a network conection , even if stable is in no way an improvement.
Pierre
VE2PF
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Cc : Rob PE1CHL
Objet : Re: [44net] On Allocations, PoPs, and Proposals
Yes I think the design and deployment of the new backbone network which would replace
IPIP tunnels and would offload
the mandatory task of (complex) routing from the beginning user should be the first
priority.
It would lower the bar of entry and it would also solve the issues that the recent TAC
proposal appears to target.
When budget is a problem, I think some of the existing gateways (certainly the one here
in the Netherlands) would be able
to offer the function or the hosting of that function for their region. We currently
have 1Gbit internet connection, soon
to be upgraded to 10Gbit, and a powerful system. Furthermore I think that bandwidth and
performance is not really
the first concern at the current load. Focus should be on reliability, possibly through
having enough redundancy in
the network.
Rob