[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Ben Hohnke]

I think with the way the Australian internet infrastructure is set up, I
don't think anycast routing would have had much of an effect. There's only
a handful of peering exchanges, so most of the traffic wouldn't get spread
out across much infrastructure. Anycast works better on country to country
scale, and maybe somewhere like the US where there is a lot of
infrastructure spread out (east coast vs west coast).

Happy to be told I'm wrong by someone who knows more, however!


On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM Glenn Hocking <glenn.hocking at woosaw.com>
wrote:

> Maybe another question should be do any of us here think we have
> infrastructure that would handle
> the whole of Australia to connect and use in one evening, possibly 30% to
> 60% in the same hour or so?
>
> If so then we already have great Internet infrastructure here in Australia
> and therefore other
> discussions regarding investment such as NBN etc. are not correct? OK I
> spose this does not really
> cover video streaming, but Australia has how many people that all tried to
> connect last night, most
> likely all on there own device form home?
>
> I spose it could be done via distribution of the serves in each
> state/city/town. And using Anycast
> routing?
>
> Could it be done? Can your network/Infrastructure do it? Was it done?
> Then there are the Application and database servers and security issues
> which are another story
> again....
>
> It think it was great that it was tried, but it seems the wrong design was
> created and used. What
> would work?
>
> Cheers
>
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