[12988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Wed Oct 22 07:23:46 1997
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 06:52:56 -0400
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
Cc: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@blackrose.org>,
"Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971021192429.34390@priori.net>; from J.D. Falk on Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:24:29PM -0700
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:24:29PM -0700, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> AFAIK, there are only two types of exchanges out there today:
>
> 1. Switched Ethernet and/or FDDI
> 2. ATM
I guess you mean 'only two types of _public_ exchanges'. The answer
we all come up with might very well be that exchanging traffic over
public media is just not a good idea. The network might very well
have gotten to the point that it just doesn't make sense to have such
a vital piece of it completely under a third parties control.
Alec
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