[12883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multihoming at same NAP/IX?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Oct 13 16:02:36 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: hank@ibm.net.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19971013191154.006952a0@max.ibm.net.il> from "Hank Nussbacher" at Oct 13, 97 09:11:54 pm
> This is a general question directed to the operators of NAPs or IXs. If
> company X buys a port, but wants to buy another port for backup purposes, is
> the 2nd port offered at the same cost, or at a reduced cost?
>
> Thanks,
> Hank
Depends which XP...
Sprint (Pennsauken) homes people to "both" gigaswitches, but only lets
you have one router anyway - so if you wanted another port to keep live
with a 2nd IP, you'd have to put two routers in.
Anyway, Sprint/Psk, and MFS with MAE-East and MAE-West charge full price
for additional ports (don't really have the concept of a backup port price)
as far as I know.
PacBell and Ameritech may be different, since there's a "NAP fee" but if
you put a 2nd ATM port into their cloud, they might not charge you anything
extra to run PVCs into it for backup peering.
Avi
