🚀 go-pugleaf

	Let us all hope that a forthcoming new mcvax hardware isn't
	just outdated by the growing load when it arrives. 
Fortunately new hardware isn't the only change: EUnet
as a whole is improving its infrastructure (more leased
lines, faster lines) providing better connectivity between
the backbones and to the USA; in the improved setup part
of the traffic will bypass [the new] mcvax altogether, thus
ensuring better service anyway, even though the traffic may
increase. The splitoff of the function of Dutch backbone
site off mcvax (taken over by hp4nl) has already done a lot
of good: in about half a year the total traffic through mcvax
and hp4nl together has increased from about 2.4 Gigabyte per
month to 3.3 Gigabyte per month; mcvax alone simply wouldn't
have been able to carry that much traffic.

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Opinions expressed above reflect those of my employer, except when they don't.

	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)