[14909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-Central
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Porter)
Tue Feb 3 11:36:10 1998
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
cc: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:23:19 PST."
<199802030422.XAA06212@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 10:01:22 -0600
From: Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>
In message <199802030422.XAA06212@merit.edu>, "Kent W. England" writes:
>At 09:28 AM 2/2/98 , Phil Howard wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0128mae.html
>>
>>How about your password to access this? Or were you quoting the entire
>>article? Where will this MAE-Central be located?
>>
>
>Sorry, but I can't find a Worldcom press release anywhere. I don't feel
>right cutting and pasting the entire article, but the location is slated to
>be Dallas.
>
>(BTW, isn't it scandalous that MFS would copy the PacBell NAP and build a
>MAE using S'com BPX switches? I went back and checked the nanog archives
>and compiled a list of all the ISPs that swore they would never connect to
>an ATM NAP. How many are planning to disconnect from the MAEs when the ATM
>switches come up?)
>
>--Kent
Its particuarlly bad that MFS starts this when they already have a
MAE-Dallas based on their standard cisco platforms. The local
ISPs put together an alternative interconnect to reduce costs
and MFS comes out with this shit. I know one company that
isn't going to be doing any new business with MFS/Worldcom.
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Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry@fc.net
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