[17435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Mon Jun 1 15:50:19 1998
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: sjsobol@shell.nacs.net (Steve Sobol)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:47:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: tep@SDSC.EDU, jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980529233127.11442@shell.nacs.net> from "Steve Sobol" at May 29, 98 11:31:27 pm
> On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 04:50:52PM -0700, Tom Perrine wrote:
>
> > Currently there are at least 60 ISPs serving the San Diego county
> > area. There are LOTS of packets from "home" to "office" that make a
> > round-trip via MAE-West. Some people have decided that this is
> > silly. Even if it is "cost-effective", it *squanders* bandwidth at
> > MAE-West that could best be used for other traffic.
> >
> > I wonder how much bandwidth at the MAEs could be saved if more areas
> > built local low-cost NAPs just for local traffice exchanges?
>
> I think there's a lot of merit to this proposal. i
Then check out the San Diego NAP....
--bill
