[13419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec H. Peterson)
Wed Nov 5 16:47:55 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:35:23 -0500
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp@hilander.com>
To: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff@ollie.clive.ia.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3460CE23.A764E8E4@ollie.clive.ia.us>; from Jeffrey C. Ollie on Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 01:50:59PM -0600
On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 01:50:59PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>
> I don't think that the problems of MAE-EAST necessarily indicate
> problems with the exchange point concept in general. Others have
> indicated satisfaction with exhange points run by other parties. What
> the problems of MAE-EAST indicate to me is that FDDI/GigaSwitches are
> not the appropriate technology for MAE-EAST sized exchanges and that MFS
> is the wrong company to be running an exhange point.
I don't really fault MFS with these problems. Show me another
exchange that is trying to pass as much traffic as MAE-east is and
functioning properly.
Plus which, I don't know of any major players who are overly happy
with public exchanges. That's why they are going to private
interconnects.
Alec
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