[18880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East - Operational question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Fri Aug 21 02:52:31 1998
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:39:32 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: Robert Hood <hoodr@conxion.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980819141308.17665C-100000@ashes>; from Robert Hood on Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 02:34:20PM -0700
> So who is signing up for the MAE-WEST/EAST ATM service? We're considering
> it, but MFS wont tell us who else is considering it. Kind of makes it
> hard to sign a 3 year contract with no idea if there will be other people
> to peer with.
Frontier GlobalCenter [as3549] has ordered or is in the
process of ordering OC-12c ATM connections to the 3 MAE ATMs.
With the interprovider traffic growth increasing as it is, to not
grow these public peerings would stifle growth. This even with
extreme resources being poured into private peerings.
-a
