On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Owen DeLong <owend@he.net> wrote:
I doubt Akamai will use them evenly. Akamai will toss traffic wherever it is most advantageous to Akamai.
Exactly. The traffic balance will follow internet BGP magic.
They will not likely saturate anyone's network (after all, that's also counter-productive for their own goals in most cases).
Also consider that the cluster will output significantly more bandwidth than is downloaded over the Internet the load shouldn't be more than the benefit. In smaller deployments, I've commonly seen bandwidth savings of 2:1 or 3:1. If things got really lopsided we could modify the BGP attributes to even it out. We're not talking a huge amount of bandwidth with a small cluster (100 or 200 Mb/s peak down from the internet). jay ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MICE-DISCUSS list, click the following link: http://lists.iphouse.net/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=MICE-DISCUSS&A=1