[10567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet 10Plus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Jul 9 20:05:35 1997
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 19:50:00 -0400
To: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Which NAP is that?
At 12:20 PM 7/9/97 -0700, Sanjay Dani wrote:
>
>>questions, or comments would be appreciated. Once again, I understand
>>that you only get 6Mbps out of a 10Mbps ethernet link, I just want to know
>>why UUNet won't deliver a better handoff to their 10Plus customers and
>>allow them to actually get 10Mbps. I guess they're going to try pushing
>
>The last time I talked to a UUnet sales rep with a clue, he
>"pretty much" acknowledged that the reason their 10 Plus service
>is not much more expensive than the dual T1 service is because they
>know the customer can't push 10Mb anyway. He "pretty much" refused to
>give the 10 plus service within a NAP --where our router is colocated
>with theirs and PNIs are allowed-- over a 10baseT (better than
>the netedge) or local loop DS3 handoff.
>
>Sales people never say things directly, hence the "pretty much" quote
>above which is my reading of his excuses.
>
>Sanjay.
>
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