Re: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-12 Thread Ken A
Tim Utschig wrote: [Please reply off-list. I'll summarize back to the list if there is more than a little interest in me doing so.] Please do. There are many rural ISPs and WISPs that might benefit from a decent look at these products, or any open source clones that might be available to

RE: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-12 Thread Crooks, Sam
...@pacific.net] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:18 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's? Tim Utschig wrote: [Please reply off-list. I'll summarize back to the list if there is more than a little interest in me doing so.] Please do. There are many rural ISPs and WISPs

RE: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-11 Thread chris.ranch
Yes and no. Yes, in that it does best path selection, no in that it does not use BGP, since low cost assumes DSL or cable, over which I've never seen BGP deployed. This class of device assumes an appliance at each end. Performance data is collected, compression and load balancing techniques

RE: Redundant Array of Inexpensive ISP's?

2009-03-10 Thread Holmes,David A
The Talari device appears to operate like the old Routescience Pathcontrol BGP load balancer circa 2002 (Routescience is now owned by Avaya I believe). Routescience was able to compile the best path to Internet BGP prefixes so that a web site could connect to multiple 2nd tier ISPs (for circuit