[13133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Oct 29 15:12:30 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:46:08 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>
Cc: Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.971029092606.29333E-100000@float.eli.net>; from "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net> on Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 09:30:59AM -0800
On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 09:30:59AM -0800, Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI wrote:
> Yes, by competition. A smaller telco should offer a better rate at nearby
> sites. However, then you loose whatever you invested in getting a rack at
> each NAP.
Well, yeah; but I think the question was: how do they justify that
price? Anything _more_ useful than "what the amrket will bear"?
> --Ben Kirkpatrick
> "Consciousness: that annoying time between naps."
This wasn't an _intentional_ pun, right? :-)
> PS: Probable ELI OC192 cut 25miles south of Seattle (again). Who's laying
> new fiber on the I-5 corridor and running us over?
_192_?
Wow. Even _I_ don't make mistakes that big...
Cheers,
-- jra
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