[AusNOG] Outage that costs Millions

[Andrew Fort]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at cisco.com> wrote:

>> Only thing not to like is the lack of implementations :-).
>
> .. and then there was one.   http://www.google.com/search?q=fabricpath
>
> :)
>

Lincoln; I'm assuming you're involved - congratulations on having the
first implementation (I wonder how far Stellar are along!)

The way I see it, TRILL is the future of both the datacentre and metro
E networks.  I can't imagine anyone building large compute (on the
order of a few thousand machine clusters and larger) without building
Clos-style fabrics, and with the traditional approach to that you had
a lot of silicon sitting around.  And if you think that your metro
network won't need that sort of cross-sectional bandwidth - in the
words of Randy Bush - I encourage my competitors to build their
networks that way :-).

-- 
Andrew Fort (afort at choqolat.org)