[Nsi-wg] NML topology
Jeroen van der Ham
vdham at uva.nl
Wed Feb 24 04:38:16 CST 2010
On 22/02/2010 12:29, Martin Swany wrote:
> From a practical perspective, links are always "owned." For a zero-cost
> link at an exchange point, the ownership may be less clear, but even in
> that case, our perspective has been that the egress part of the unidirectional
> link is owned by the network/node/port that is driving it. The link itself really
> has few properties outside of propagation delay and loss, but has addressing
> and queueing properties that are assigned to the port driving it and that port
> *always* has an owner.
How would that apply to a fiber that is connected to an open exchange
(e.g. GOLE)? The port on that exchange would be owned by the network
connecting to that exchange. So would the unidirectional link *to* the
exchange.
Who would own the unidirectionl link *from* the exchange?
Jeroen.
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