[13500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Nov 8 13:10:40 1997
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 13:01:53 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nodlist@nodewarrior.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971108065856.006a0a78@localhost>; from "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com> on Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 06:58:56AM -0800
On Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 06:58:56AM -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
> There is no point agreeing with the Big Backbone Network Engineers that the
> MAEs suck. It is in their best interest that the MAEs suck, the CIX is
> crippled, you aren't bugging them to plug into a high perf exchange, and
> that you, the little ISP, go out of business soon. THEY have private
> interconnects which you can't join. Find a co-lo where you can
> cross-connect without being robbed or build your own NAP, just don't use
> DEC-designed Gigaswitches and FDDI. Use full duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet
> switch or find an old Fore switch cheap.
At the risk of litigation, Kent makes a good point here: how much of
the problems we see are engineering based, and how much are (let's say
it softly: political?
This is right on the edge of topic for the list; construct your replies
carefully, or cross-post to nodlist, per reply-to.
Cheers,
-- jra
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