Picked up the new Our Lady Peace CD, 'Gravity'- just so I can set 'Somewhere out there' on repeat and listen to it until I've memorized every chord progression in the song. I woke up around 9am, and we all actually made it to The Dunes on-time. My memory served me correctly, and we found West Beach and swam there for slightly less than a couple of hours. After walking in the scalding sand for 30 minutes or so, we decided to serve our bellies and grab a bite to eat. Arby's was the vendor of choice, and I sufficed with a BLT. In the parking lot near Arby's (this was in Michigan City), I glanced upon my beloved IS 300. My Chris Fortier CD (see below) better arrive tomorrow, lest I spout off into a fit of rage and seek the bottleneck in what is usually a decent delivery system. (USPS). On a totally random note, let me declare that I believe RouteScience and Peribit to be the 2 most influential companies in the way routing is conducted - until further implementations of BGP are instituted.
They work like this:
RouteScience monitors all of your BGP-4 peering routes and constantly and tranparently optimizes your own BGP-4 tables for performance, packet loss, etc. BGP-4 by itself is only aware of a few factors, most notably the AS hop count. Essentially, if you have router 'A', which knows about 'B', which is 1 hop away but has 70ms latency and 'C', which is 2 hops away but only has 30ms latency, BGP-4 would still choose to route through 'B'. RouteScience would quickly update your table, and your data would pass through C, with less latency and thus of course greater efficiency.
On an even more impressive note, Peribit actually works at the Network Layer (Level 3) of the OSI model, stripping out redundant data, and then reassembling and retransmitting it...
In relating network blogging, I predict that Level 3 Networks will pick up a lot of customers from the recent Global Crossing and WorldCom fiascos.
Kerz, if you're reading this, can you link me to Mozillazine's Weblogs page? I promise I'll be updating this blog regularly.
Posted by stephend at August 7, 2002 10:24 PM