[11421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ANS etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Jul 29 22:33:22 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:22:31 -0400
To: "Douglas Jardine" <djardine@hotmail.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707300144.SAA06104@f13.hotmail.com>
At 06:44 PM 07/29/97 PDT, Douglas Jardine wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This isn't really a North American Operational issue, but I couldn't
>find a more appropriate list to post this on. Please bear with me.
>I do hope that some of the replies would be useful to network operators.
>
>[1] From what I know, ANS was formed by Merit, IBM and MCI in 1990 to
> run the NSFNET backbone. Could somebody update me on the current
> status of ANS - i.e. after NSFNETs demise in 1995, did ANS become
> independent and does it qualify as an NSP in its own right?
>
See:
http://www.ans.net/WhyChooseANS/Overview/History.html
>[2] Is there an equivalent to NANOG for Europe and Asia and is there
>an equivalent list which discusses operational issues for these
> continents? Pointers appreciated.
>
Yes, for Europe there's the RIPE-discuss list (for which I don't have
an immediate reference) and for Asia, there's the apops list:
Asia Pacific Ops <apops@apnic.net>
>[3] Is there a web page which lists all the public CIXs and NAPs
>around the world? Pointers appreciated.
>
Yes, see:
http://www.isi.edu:80/div7/ra/naps.html
>[4] Some recent threads on NANOG discussed physical layer issues like
> SONET, SDH, circuit layout etc. Could somebody point me to
>technical papers / articles / books which describe fiber and
>copper technology in detail.
>
Start visiting you local technical bookstore. :-)
- paul
