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Re: Possible topic?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Tue Oct 21 22:59:20 1997

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 22:36:49 -0400
From: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
To: Snowdog <snowdog@charm.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710220103.VAA07368@fellspt.charm.net>; from Snowdog on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 09:03:21PM -0400


  Maybe I misread your note.  Please clarify.

> If I could add a NAP to this list, the Sprint NAP is having
> horrific packet loss and I understand that legal action 
> was necessary to get the invovled parties to resolve the
> situation.
...
> There is a FDDI Ring at the NAP which was overcrowded.
> It apparently took some legal action to get Sprint
> (or whoever is responsible for the Sprint NAP :) ) 
> to make the necessary upgrades.  What I've heard is that
> 4 GigaSwitches are being installed from MFS and that
> this installation/upgrade ETR is 1-2 months.  

  Are you saying that Sprint obtained 4 GigaSwitches from MFS?

  -a


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