Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Saku Ytti
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 23:14, Bryan Fields wrote: > I think he might be referring to the newer modulation types (QAM) on long haul > transport. There's quite a bit of time in uS that the encoding takes into QAM > and adding FEC. You typically won't see this at the plug-able level between > swit

Re: A spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list.

2020-06-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/20/20 6:42 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: > On 6/20/20 5:33 PM, Tim Pozar wrote: >> Looks like a spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list. i >> I will be unscribing as I don't need this additional noise in my mailbox. > > Do you have the full headers of these emails? Please send t

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Jun 20, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > > On 20/Jun/20 00:41, Anoop Ghanwani wrote: > >> One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet contains a >> record of where it has been. > > I can't see how advantageous that is, or how possible it would be to >

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Jun 20, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: Hi Mark, > On 20/Jun/20 00:41, Anoop Ghanwani wrote: >> One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet contains a >> record of where it has been. > I can't see how advantageous that is, That will be very advantageous in

Re: A spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list.

2020-06-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/20/20 5:33 PM, Tim Pozar wrote: > Looks like a spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list. i > I will be unscribing as I don't need this additional noise in my mailbox. Do you have the full headers of these emails? Please send them along if you do. -- Bryan Fields 727-409-

Re: A spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list.

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
They've been harassing me all day - I've been ignoring. Mark. On 20/Jun/20 23:33, Tim Pozar wrote: > Looks like a spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list. i > I will be unscribing as I don't need this additional noise in my mailbox. > > Tim > > - Forwarded message from Mich

A spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list.

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Pozar
Looks like a spammer is harvesting email addresses from the NANOG list. i I will be unscribing as I don't need this additional noise in my mailbox. Tim - Forwarded message from Michele Jemmi - Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:06:05 -0500 From: Michele Jemmi To: po...@lns.com Subject: Re: Re:

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jun/20 00:41, Anoop Ghanwani wrote: > One of the advantages cited for SRv6 over MPLS is that the packet > contains a record of where it has been. I can't see how advantageous that is, or how possible it would be to implement, especially for inter-domain traffic. Mark.

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jun/20 19:58, Gert Doering wrote: > The 6880/6840 products were promising at that time, but the pricing made > it uninteresting. So we kept our 6506Es for a time... We haven't done anything with them since we bought and deployed them in 2014. They are serving their purpose quite well, a

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Požár
Did you not read my posting on Quora? Tim On 6/20/20 10:49 AM, Wayne Bouchard wrote: And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, IIRC.) I also don't recall if anyone mentioned that the 30ms is as the photon flie

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 16:14 Bryan Fields wrote: > On 6/20/20 1:56 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 20:52, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > > > >> And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other > >> electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, > >> IIRC.

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 6/20/20 1:56 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 20:52, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > >> And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other >> electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, >> IIRC.) > This will be something from tens of meters (low lat swich),

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Marshall Eubanks
This was also pitched as one of the killer-apps for the SpaceX Starlink satellite array, particularly for cross-Atlantic and cross-Pacific trading. https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/marketintegrity/2019/06/25/fspacex-is-opening-up-the-next-frontier-for-hft/ "Several commentators quickly caught onto

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:38 PM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 20/Jun/20 11:27, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > >> > We run the Internet in a VRF to get watertight separation between > management and the Internet. I do also have a CGN vrf but that one has very > few routes in it (99% being subscriber man

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Alejandro Acosta
Hello,   Taking advantage of this thread may I ask something?. I have heard of "wireless fiber optic", something like an antenna with a laser pointing from one building to the other, having said this I can assume this link with have lower RTT than a laser thru a fiber optic made of glass? T

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-06-20, at 19:07, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > This is c in a vacuum. Light transmission through a medium is slower. Ob-movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hummingbird_Project Grüße, Carsten

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Saku Ytti
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 20:52, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other > electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, > IIRC.) This will be something from tens of meters (low lat swich), to few hundred meters (typical pipeline), t

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jun/20 20:19, ljwob...@gmail.com wrote: > >From the vendor standpoint, the market has never been able to agree on what > >makes a "core" application. If I have five "big" customers, I guarantee you > >that: > - one of them will need really big ACLs, even though it's a "core" box to >

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Wayne Bouchard
And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, IIRC.) I also don't recall if anyone mentioned that the 30ms is as the photon flies, not fiber distance. -Wayne On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:32:30PM +, Mel Beckman wro

Re: [c-nsp] Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jun/20 17:26, Gert Doering wrote: > There's a special place in hell for people re-using the "Catalyst" brand > name and then putting yearly renewable licenses on it. Or IOS XE. > > I'm not actually sure *which* BU is doing "Catalyst" these days, but > we're so annoyed about Cisco these da

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Mel Beckman
An intriguing development in fiber optic media is hollow core optical fiber, which achieves 99.7% of the speed of light in a vacuum. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/151498-researchers-create-fiber-network-that-operates-at-99-7-speed-of-light-smashes-speed-and-latency-records -mel On Jun 2

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jun/20 14:41, Masataka Ohta wrote: >   > There are many. So, our research group tried to improve RSVP. I'm a lot younger than the Internet, but I read a fair bit about its history. I can't remember ever coming across an implementation of RSVP between a host and the network in a commercia

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Dave Cohen
Doing some rough back of the napkin math, an ultra low-latency path from, say, the Westin to 1275 K in Seattle will be in the 59 ms range. This is considerably longer than the I-90 driving distance would suggest because: - Best case optical distance is more like 5500 km, in part because the path

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 20, 2020, at 9:27 AM, William Herrin wrote: > > Howdy, > > Why is latency between the east and west coasts so bad? Speed of light > accounts for about 15ms each direction for a 30ms round trip. Where > does the other 30ms come from and why haven't we gotten rid

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Požár
Besides the refractive index of glass that makes like go about 2/3rds it can in a vacuum, "Stuff" also includes many other things like modulation/demodulation, buffers, etc. I did a quora answer on this you can find at: https://www.quora.com/How-can-one-describe-the-delay-characteristics-of-p

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Mike Hammett
The speed of light in fiber is only about 2/3 the speed of light in a vacuum, so that 15 ms is really about 22.5 ms. That brings the total to about 45 ms. Some would come from how many miles of extra glass in that 2,742 miles in the form of slack loops. Some would come from fiber routes not

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Durack
And of course in your more realistic example: 2742 miles = 4412 km ~ 44 ms optical rtt with no OEO in the path On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tim Durack wrote: > Speed of light in glass ~200 km/s > > 100 km rtt = 1ms > > Coast-to-coast ~6000 km ~60ms > > Tim:> > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:2

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Durack
Speed of light in glass ~200 km/s 100 km rtt = 1ms Coast-to-coast ~6000 km ~60ms Tim:> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 12:27 PM William Herrin wrote: > Howdy, > > Why is latency between the east and west coasts so bad? Speed of light > accounts for about 15ms each direction for a 30ms round trip. Whe

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Joe Greco
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 09:24:11AM -0700, William Herrin wrote: > Howdy, > > Why is latency between the east and west coasts so bad? Speed of light > accounts for about 15ms each direction for a 30ms round trip. Where > does the other 30ms come from and why haven't we gotten rid of it? > > c = 18

60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread William Herrin
Howdy, Why is latency between the east and west coasts so bad? Speed of light accounts for about 15ms each direction for a 30ms round trip. Where does the other 30ms come from and why haven't we gotten rid of it? c = 186,282 miles/second 2742 miles from Seattle to Washington DC mainly driving I-9

Re: why am i in this handbasket? (was Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?)

2020-06-20 Thread Robert Raszuk
> The problem of MPLS, however, is that, it must also be flow driven, > because detailed route information at the destination is necessary > to prepare nested labels at the source, which costs a lot and should > be attempted only for detected flows. > MPLS is not flow driven. I sent some mail abou

Re: why am i in this handbasket? (was Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?)

2020-06-20 Thread Robert Raszuk
> there is saku's point of distributing labels in IGP TLVs/LSAs. i > suspect he is correct, but good luck getting that anywhere in the > internet vendor task force. Perhaps I will surprise a few but this is not only already in RFC formats - it is also shipping already across vendors for some time

Re: why am i in this handbasket? (was Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?)

2020-06-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Randy Bush wrote: MPLS was since day one proposed as enabler for services originally L3VPNs and RSVP-TE. MPLS day one was mike o'dell wanting to move his city/city traffic matrix from ATM to tag switching and open cascade's hold on tags. And IIRC, Tag switching day one was Cisco overreacting t

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Tinka wrote: At the time I proposed label switching, there already was RSVP but RSVP-TE was proposed long after MPLS was proposed. RSVP failed to take off, for whatever reason (I can think of many). There are many. So, our research group tried to improve RSVP. Practically, the most ser

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jun/20 11:27, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > > We run the Internet in a VRF to get watertight separation between > management and the Internet. I do also have a CGN vrf but that one has > very few routes in it (99% being subscriber management created, eg. > one route per customer). Why would t

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Baldur Norddahl
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:08 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > MPLS with hierarchical routing just does not scale. > > With Internet in a VRF, I truly agree. > > But if you run a simple global BGP table and no VRF's, I don't see an > issue. This is what we do, and our scaling concerns are exactly the sam

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jun/20 18:00, Masataka Ohta wrote:   > There seems to be serious confusions between label switching > with explicit flows and MPLS, which was believed to scale > without detecting/configuring flows. > > At the time I proposed label switching, there already was RSVP > but RSVP-TE was propos

Re: Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

2020-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 19/Jun/20 17:40, Masataka Ohta wrote:   > > As the first person to have proposed the forwarding paradigm of > label switching, I have been fully aware from the beginning that: > >    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ohta-ip-over-atm-01 > >    Conventional Communication over ATM in a Internet