Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
Dave Wilson of HEAnet came down to evangelise (in a good way) IPv6 and a migration to a bigger, more scaleable series of tubes internet. Using HEAnet as an example, Dave detailed the mixed requirements that academic users require from their networks. Physicists in particular require short bursts of very high bandwidth ( > 1Gbps ) so perhaps we can separate them on to end-to-end VLANs. If we could have a provisioning system that used a common platform, we could provide bandwidth on demand to high traffic point-to-point type users (and more) and thus optimise each network to more closely match the requirements of the traffic traversing it.
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