Honey, part of our success is that I don't accept the above. Sooner
or later, you will have to compete with someone who believes:
"Good
Fast
Cheap
we do all three."
When one really knows one's field, it is possible to design simple
systems. In the networking world, the qualities simple bring are:
Good (reliable),
Fast,
Cheap.
In a field where people think that it is perfectly acceptable to run
MPLS through a NAT connected via PPP over Ethernet over ATM, it isn't
harder to be simpler than the competition.
good luck,
fletcher
Anyone that calls me honey is in question.
It's standard, you cant have everything in life. You attempt to achieve all three however it's all relative. You can have a DSL line now instead of a T1, it's fast and cheap but most arent as good as a T1 and the SLAs arent there right?
Usually you either build your network to one of two designed: Avg sustained traffic levels, or Peak traffic levels.
Avg sustained means that during peak times you might have higher latency, but that you have not over bought capacity... Peak Traffic design means you looked at your max burst levels and bought enough capacity etc to handle that load. The rest of the time you have excess capacity, but your QoS is always great. You will have a higher costs basis here.
We all strive for all three, I used to almost try a TDM approach. Where I would try and balance business day users, residential users, and backup service users on the network. They used 3 distinct time frames during the day. In this way the network was rarely idle, but each type of users peak time was not in conflict with another.
So if you would like to say you can sell me an OC48 at Aleron's (or fill in the ISPs name) IP backbone quality, at Cogent's pricing of less then $30meg... great...
Warning , this post won't configure a router.
fkittred@gwi.net wrote:
> People seem to prefer cost of quality at this time.
> Good
> Fast
> Cheap
Honey, part of our success is that I don't accept the above. Sooner
or later, you will have to compete with someone who believes:
"Good
Fast
Cheap
we do all three."
Huh, must be in marketing or sales, perhaps a CEO, even.
* shrug *
Hey, while we are at it,
What is the difference between a Suit and an Engineer ?
The Engineer -knows- when he is lying.
:P
Now, the "Honey" comment ?
Sounds like a rather sticky "wicket", not my style,
I think I'll pass.....
However, You -=can=- tell the poster isn't from Baltimore, though...
I think I heard once that the Baltimore City slogan is
"Welcome Home, Hon!"
:D
> Conf t
router # silobeth.....shilobeth...seilobath...
router # oh, forget it!
router # ^Z
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<morning coffee>
I know, Susan... I know.
I won't quit my day job.
Exiting, stage left.
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(No offense intended to anyone, really...)
(just lightening up the conversation)
(C'Ya)