Re: [v6ops] About Req for Comments - "Transition to IPv6"

[Matthew Petach <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:06 AM Owen DeLong <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2020, at 16:32 , Matthew Petach <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
  On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:54 AM Owen DeLong <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> > On Mar 5, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>> > Is facebook a network?  I thought of it like a server farm.
>>
>> How does one run a distributed server farm throughout the world without
>> connecting it with a network? Am I missing something?
>>
>
> I believe for a very long time, that would have accurately described
> Akamai.
>
>
> Akamai didn’t run a backbone. I’d argue that they did run many rather
> sizable networks.
>
> Until their announcement, long after they had established themselves in
> the marketplace, that they were going to deploy a network:
> https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG71/1532/20171003_Kaufmann_Lightning_Talk_Akamai_v1.pdf
>
>
> Oh, I’m very familiar with that particular project… It was in it’s startup
> hey day during my tenure in Mr. Kaufmann’s group. That was Akamai building
> a backbone to connect many (not nearly all) of their networks together.
>
> I stand by my original statement. One cannot (usefully) run a server farm
> without a network. Network != backbone.
>

Fair point.

Having spent so much of my career focusing on global backbones, I did
become somewhat myopic in my focus on what Networks were.

Yes, datacenter have networks as well.

Apologies for brushing them off so cavalierly.  ^_^;;


>
> Owen
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>
Matt