Thoughts on Building Big IP Networks
or
"The only real problem is scale;
everything else just inherits from that."
Once upon a time, a decent Internet backbone could be built from your favorite router and T1 lines. As the Internet grew, the routers got bigger and the lines got faster, but according to the classic IP orthodoxy, it should all work just the same.
This talk will explore some of the critical ideas in the design and
operation of large-scale IP networks and why the classic design
orthodoxy no longer holds. We will also spend some time on future
scaling and visit some of the interesting problems which must be
solved to scale a large IP backbone 1000-fold.
3 juni 1997