[2672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-exchange media types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Thu Apr 25 14:22:18 1996
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: paul@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:17:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9604251735.AA01022@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at Apr 25, 96 10:35:33 am
> we would
> soon reach the point where the individual 100Mb/s ports were just too full.
Some of the larger providers (like MCI, Sprint, & AlterNet) are
there (or nearly there) already.
My understanding is that the providers that are pushing lots & lots
of bits between them are going off & implementing a number of
point-to-point links to offload traffic from the interconnects.
I've heard that MCI & Sprint are putting up something like 6 T3s
between themselves; that MCI & AlterNet are doing 4 T3s; and that
Sprint & AlterNet are doing 2 T3s. There may be other folks doing
similar things. [AlterNet has had a number of private peering in
place for years - to folks like NEARnet, BARRNet, Sesquinet, &
THEnet.]
Once these are in place, a fair amount of traffic should be removed
from the major interconnects.
--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
