[PLUG] resnet

[Brent Meshier]

That reasoning is not entirely correct.  At peak usage, Purdue uses about
94% of their incoming bandwidth and 57% outgoing
(http://www.purdue.edu/PUCC-PDN/stats/router/cisco-tel/ct-hssi-1-1-0.html).
The NAP (uunet) is mearly a "middle man" to transport traffic.  Since you
can only move as much traffic as your smallest link, it's evident that uunet
has more than enough bandwidth to accomidate Purdue's connection, otherwise
you would see the graphs (see link above) flatline below it's maximum
input/output.

Brent Meshier

> > > The school has a 45mb/sec pipe, and from the usage graphs I have
> > > seen it is not bogged down.
>
> Great.  That's rocks.  Big deal.
>
> I'm sure with a 45mb/sec pipe, our side would never be bogged down.  What
> about the other end, though?  I doubt any outside access is slow because
> of something on Purdue's side.
>
> NAPs love to oversubscribe by at least 8:1 .... Can't blame them... the
> internet is a peak usage type of thing.  If I remember names and
> numbers correctly, UUnet has a bad habit of going as high as 20:1.  So for
> every 20 megs they offer in a subscription, hey can only really give 1meg
> during peak usage.  (Don't quote me on numbers... but I think my point has
> gotten across)
>
>  -James C. Lewis