[2447] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: the Internet Backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Sat Apr 6 00:20:32 1996
From: Barry Raveendran Greene <barry@singnet.com.sg>
To: "'Avi Freedman'" <freedman@netaxs.com>,
Michael Dillon
<michael@memra.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"pferguso@cisco.com"
<pferguso@cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 12:49:12 +-800
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From: Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 1996 1:15 AM
To: Michael Dillon
Cc: pferguso@cisco.com; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: the Internet Backbone
> Are they an NSP?
> Do they operate their own national backbone?
> Can they provide national transit over their own network infrastructure?
> Do they interconnect with other NSP's who satisfy the previous two
> conditions at most of the public exchange points?
Where public exchange points == {MAE-East, MAE-West, Pennsauken, PacBell NAP,
Chicago NAP, and arguably the CIX router/cloud}.
And NSPISP, NXIX, STIX, HKIX, D-GIX, F-GIX, CIXP, LINX, etc. etc. etc.
Barry
