[23756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New York City peering points, alternate to NYIIX??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Wed Apr 21 18:47:54 1999
From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer)
To: rwelty@neworks.net (Richard Welty)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:46:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E10a1cw-0002tT-00@mail.neworks.net> from Richard Welty at "Apr 21, 99 01:44:39 pm"
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> At 01:10 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Reid Fishler wrote:
> >At 12:58 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
> >>i was looking at connecting to NYIIX, however, i find that Telehouse is
> >>sharging $400/month just to jack into their switch.
>
> >2) $400 a month for a port where a decent amount of traffic is traded and
> >where the
> >switch is well maintained is not rediculous.
>
> really. $400/month is trivial compared to what Worldcom charges to connect
> to the FDDI ring in "MAE-NY" (111 8th Street), and there are only two peers
> on that ring, only one of which (ICI/Digex) is worth anything.
my expectations are not that of a MAE, nor FDDI.
i'm looking to share news, web cache, ftp/http archives, etc.
10baseT should be adequate.
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