[17513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jun 4 00:48:13 1998
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:35:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806031230.UAA23994@mail.creative.net.au>
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Something of interest here might be centralising services at NAPs. For
> example, putting a news server at the NAP running Cylone, the NAP
> purchasing a news only T1 (or whatever) to serve the box, and then
> participants who would like a news feed getting it directly from this
> box and paying extra.
I went one step further and talked to some of the local ISPs about pooling
some $ and having a NAP-owned nnrp server. Why waste bandwidth and
hardware duplicating a beast such as usenet servers if its not necessary.
The ones I talked to agreed it seemed a good idea, but nothing ever came
of it.
> Just out of curiousity, since I'm not in the US, how much would a T1 cost
> point to point inside a city, without default IP transit? With IP transit?
In BellSouth land, I know a local point to point T1 circuit can be had for
about $300/month ($1700 install). With CLEC's getting into the business
of selling circuits (especially if they have their own fiber) prices can
be whatever they want to charge...usually less than the ILEC :)
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