Re: Best networks with international presence..

2006-12-18 Thread Joe Abley



On 18-Dec-2006, at 12:04, Joel Jaeggli wrote:


Drew Weaver wrote:

I am looking for opinions of what US carriers have the best
connectivity with the international players such as teleglobe, etc.
Mainly, we are trying to determine if there is any way for us to get
less latency from teleglobe's customers to our network (we  
currently see
something like 1100 ms in teleglobe's london POP in traceroutes  
from our

customers to our network).


You sure the cpu on the teleglobe router in the path isn't just  
pegged?
If the rtt for the whole path is 400ms but one hop in the middles  
shows
1100ms you're probably measuring the performance of the scheduler  
in the
OS the router is running not rtt to and from that router, packets  
going
through it rather than to it likely take a different path through  
the box.


Of course if the customer's rtt is 1100+ ms then sure there's probably
serious congestion on one of those links.


Or the return path from that router is asymmetric, and involves a few  
congested hops into space and back. Teleglobe has customers in many  
parts of the world where such things are not so unusual.



Joe



Re: Best networks with international presence..

2006-12-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli

Drew Weaver wrote:
> I am looking for opinions of what US carriers have the best
> connectivity with the international players such as teleglobe, etc.
> Mainly, we are trying to determine if there is any way for us to get
> less latency from teleglobe's customers to our network (we currently see
> something like 1100 ms in teleglobe's london POP in traceroutes from our
> customers to our network).

You sure the cpu on the teleglobe router in the path isn't just pegged?
If the rtt for the whole path is 400ms but one hop in the middles shows
1100ms you're probably measuring the performance of the scheduler in the
OS the router is running not rtt to and from that router, packets going
through it rather than to it likely take a different path through the box.

Of course if the customer's rtt is 1100+ ms then sure there's probably
serious congestion on one of those links.


> thanks for any opinions/advice.
>  
> -Drew
>  

joelja