On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Richard Shockey wrote: > I'd like to understand what may be happening in Europe with the > KPN/Quest/ebone collapse. Janet's UKERNA puts up tender documents wanting new suppliers to interface to their kit in Worldcom racks. http://www.ja.net/development/transatlantic_reprocurement/ I think another clarification might be due soon. L. > > Its my understanding that it carried between 1/4 and 1/3 of the European > backbone traffic but as it stands now I've seen no reports of large scale > traffic disruptions. > > From a traffic engineering perspective what does this mean? > > Is the density of the European mesh so rich that even a major backbone > disconnection barely causes a hicup? > > How have the BGP4 tables adapted? > > My interest is pure curiosity. <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>