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Re: join the Internet Backbone

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Rosenberg)
Thu Apr 4 23:49:04 1996

Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 21:46:54 -0700 (MST)
From: Kevin Rosenberg <kevin@cyberport.com>
To: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@vii.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960404203714.27888A-100000@lonepeak.vii.com>

> [...]
> that USWest, SISNA (who now claims to be the 3rd largest ISP/NSP and still
> have only a T1 to MCI, and claim that is a DS3) and all these other
> people who think that they are connected to the internet back bone.
> [...]

In Farmington, New Mexico, SISNA uses compressing DSU's on each side of
their 56K line to their main office.  They claim their 56K line is a
"T1-speed" line.

Being in local competition with them, that bugs me more than the "250MB"
tape drives that are only 120MB!

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