[1493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: value of co-location
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George H. Clapp)
Mon Jan 22 16:09:50 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 15:55:32 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "George H. Clapp" <clapp@bellcore.com>
At 05:11 PM 1/20/96 -0500, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>George H. Clapp <clapp@bellcore.com> wrote:
>
>>The reasons for co-location that have been mentioned so far include...
>
>>- zero-mile circuits
>
>That means expansion of that "circuit" is free.
What is meant by free expansion of the circuit?
>>'Zero-mile circuit' isn't clear to me because, regardless of the technology
>>used for the NAP, it's still necessary to purchase a circuit from your site
>>to the NAP.
>
>The difference is between the clearline circuit and circuit with 40%
>protocol overhead. Some big players are carriers themselves and
>want to use _own_ circuits whereever possible.
What isn't mentioned is the advantage of data-link layer multiplexing that
the Fast Packet Services offer. Rather than bringing in multiple circuits
and consuming multiple ports on your router, it's possible to carry traffic
from customers as well as traffic to the NAP on that same interface. That's
a fundamental point which is driving much of the deployment of the Fast
Packet Services.
George Clapp
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