[13415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Nov 5 16:08:02 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:42:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
cc: Adam Hersh <adam@agis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971105133308.36294@ramirez.hilander.com>
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Alec H. Peterson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 12:46:50PM -0800, Adam Hersh wrote:
> > With all of the problems with MAE-EAST.....
> >
> > Any plans from anyone to create a ATM exchange point in the DC area?
>
> I can't think of a reason why somebody would do that.
>
> All of the problems that mae-east is having is a clear sign that
> providers need to move their big peers off of the public fabric and
> onto private interconnects. Aside from the engineering problems, it
> just seems so difficult to justify having such an important part of a
> backbone's existance controlled by a third party. As these recent
> problems have illustrated, either that third party is either not
> capable or not willing to fix the problems. Either way, the end
> result is the same.
YES I agree 100%, but people still like to be at a public NAP. It has
turned into a sales thing, and people will pay to be at one.
-Nathan
