[13176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP Architecture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Thu Oct 30 01:20:21 1997
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
To: rjoffe@genuity.net (Rodney Joffe)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:13:35 -0800 (PST)
Cc: bmanning@ISI.EDU, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2E8F4FDB9F00D01186A6080009B30C7F01DFC7E5@X-FILES> from "Rodney Joffe" at Oct 29, 97 10:49:54 pm
>
> Bill,
>
> No-one said any of that was free. But on the other hand, the $2,000 a
> month Rack fee covers a lot. As well as the required $2,500 a month port
> fee on the Gigaswitch. There's always a middle ground... which is all
> we're saying. At the moment the pendelum is at the 'other' end. Would be
> nice if it was in the middle. Sort of like your side of MAE LA.
>
True. What that does do is leave a big hole in the wallet when your
space gets exausted... We'd like to expand, but the reserves are a bit
on the low side (does covering expenses also cover major expansion not
in the original plan?? :) at least for the moment. Our end of the LA
exchange is near capacity and we may have to close for a bit.
--bill
