[131748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Tue Nov 2 16:57:03 2010
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:55:01 -0400
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <025520FF-8815-4CB1-B586-27BEFF1134F4@gizmopartners.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At 03:43 PM 11/2/2010, Chris Boyd wrote:
>On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>
> > And FDDI and X.25 and every single legacy protocol
>
>Are there still any commercial X.25 nets in operation?
DATAPAC in Canada was running at least until Jan of this year. The
price per month kept getting turned up and up and up and up to
"encourage" the last users to migrate away. By the end, I think all
that was left were various banking / POS applications. I seem to
recall the price around $1,500 a month at the end.
---Mike
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