COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[sf at lists.esoteric.ca (Stephen Fulton)]

In $dayjob I constantly see the lack of understanding of the difference 
between what the Internet is and what a path engineered private circuit 
is (eg. pseudowire, wave, whatever).  The latest fight is over SD-WAN 
and those who think it will replace MPLS entirely and they won't need 
those expensive routers anymore.  But I digress.

Mark's comment and others like it are the correct approach Mike.  If 
your private WAN is most critical, then invest in and manage user 
complaints about poor Internet service.  ISP's, IXP's and CDN's are not 
going to twist themselves into knots to solve your problems, even if 
someone calls it an emergency.  Sorry.

Stephen


On 2020-03-15 02:01, Mark Tinka wrote:
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> On 14/Mar/20 19:14, Mike Bolitho wrote:
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>> I work for a hospital, we ran into some issues last week due to 
>> congestion that was totally outside of our control that was off of our 
>> WAN (Thanks Call Of Duty). Now, the issue we ran into was not mission 
>> critical at the time but it was still disruptive. As more and more 
>> people are driven home during this time, more and more people will be 
>> using bandwidth intensive streaming and online gaming products. If 
>> more and more TSP coded entities are running into issues, ISPs, IXPs, 
>> and CDNs will be forced to act.
> 
> Hmmh, if that level of priority is required, I'd probably build my own 
> network, and not rely on public infrastructure like the Internet.
> 
> Mark.