[17007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a little thought on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue May 19 23:37:14 1998
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 19:41:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980519210317.23249.qmail@bleep.ishiboo.com>
On Tue, 19 May 1998 black@bleep.ishiboo.com wrote:
> Anyone thought about eliminating large physical exchange points and replacing
> them with a more distributed architecture?
Uhhh... Savvis.
> Multiple data centers interconnected over ATM in a single metro area
That's the PacBell NAP in the Bay Area and the AADS NAP in Chicago.
> run by
> indepdenant entities who are free to provide any level of service or value
> add they wish.
Kind of defeats the purpose of having an exchange point don't you think?
Or are you thinking of something more like what the PAIX does?
http://www.ix.digital.com/
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