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In article <402pvt$ffu@sake.wwa.com>,
Phil N. Schuman <pschuman@interserv.com> wrote:
>It would be interesting to see how the local providers can scale up their operations.
>I mean - if you are running PCbased machines - how can those scale up to support
>the tremendous growth of services and support the number of users flodding the network.
>Are you using PC based solutions, or other RISC based platforms - or ??

Simple.  You build FMP cluster configurations such that no single CPU is
overloaded, and that both handles the problem and gives you enormous
redundancy.

Most FMP architectures are highly customized, and require a lot of
experience to build well..

>At some point, things run very nicely on the samller platforms, but then what?

Then you cluster them with high-performance network architectures.

>As as far as bandwidth goes - does a couple of T1's really cut it ?

It depends on what you're doing and how you structure your backbone.  We are
installing DS-3s now (the first is in service as of today) to provide for
more performance, and more capacity, across our backbone.  This is a
pro-active step we're taking to help our customers work more efficiently; it
is not a question of our being out of capacity.

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