On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:07:31AM -0700, Hex Star wrote:
How does akamai handle traffic congestion so seamlessly?
Perhaps we should
look at existing setups implemented by companies such as akamai
for
guidelines regarding how to resolve this kind of issue...
and if you are a Content Delivery Network wishing to use a cache
deployment architecture you should do just that ... but for
networks with big backbones as per this discussion we need to do
something else
Ignoring "Akamai" and looking at just content providers (CDN or
otherwise) in general, there is a huge difference between telling a
web server "do not serve more than 900 Mbps on your GigE port", and a
router which simply gets bits from random sources to be forwarded to
random destinations.
IOW: Steve is right, those are two different topics.
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TTFN,
patrick