[asterisk-biz] Recomendation for DC in NYC for VOIP

alex at pilosoft.com alex at pilosoft.com
Wed May 30 07:36:46 MST 2007


On Wed, 30 May 2007, Mike Hammett wrote:

>> b) Why I don't recommend Arbinet or any of the "magic juice that makes
>> teh interwebs faster" (various providers over time have made this
>> claim, gamerail is the current joke) - because it doesn't work. Until I
>> see actual numbers how, *on average*, it improves performance, I'll
>> keep calling BS.
> 
> So you have no real, technical reason why it doesn't work.  It's just
> different than the norm, so it's bad, eh?
Mike,

a) Stop top-posting when you are replying. Maybe then you'll look less of 
a WHT500 joker.

b) I don't need to explain why it doesn't work. Proof of burden is on 
whoever says "it works". 

In more technical terms, trying to be better than the ISP itself to route
packets across ISP's own backbone is *hard*. I'm not saying it is
impossible. I'm saying, all the solutions I've seen (from internap or
netvmg or OER or gamerail or whatever is the solution-du-jour) all far
very short of the "correct" solution, and end up breaking more things than 
they "optimize".

See: hot potato routing, cold potato routing, mashed potato.

-alex



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