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Re: value of co-location

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Balbach)
Fri Jan 19 19:11:40 1996

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:36:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
cc: "George H. Clapp" <clapp@bellcore.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960119231617.006b0818@mail.cts.com>

> At 12:24 PM 1/19/96 -0500, Stephen Balbach wrote:
> >Get a 100Mb FDDI or Ethernet connection between the two colocated 
> >routers.  
> >Then bring in multiple Fast packet services into your router which then 
> >aggregates out the LAN port.

> This breaks down when the connection speed goes from DS-3 to OC-3.

LAN speeds can keep up with WAN speeds at OC-3, just use ATM.

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