[2864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FWD: Pacific Bell's LA NAP in service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Tue May 7 17:59:11 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
To: inet-access@earth.com
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:53:05 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: kwe@6sigmanets.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507132637.11003A-100000@lonepeak.vii.com> from "Christian Nielsen" at May 7, 96 01:27:38 pm
>
> On Tue, 7 May 1996, Kent W. England wrote:
>
> > Pac Bell has announced their LA NAP is operational. Contact and details below.
>
> Is there not already a MAE-LA? Why would thay have an LA NAP if even
> MAE-LA hasn't taken off as of yet?
>
> Just a question.
>
> Christian Nielsen
Yes, there is. I would expect that the NAP service is offering
is an extention of the existing BayArea service. This approach
reduces the cost of entry of entry for people you are in the So.Cal.
area to a local loop charge.
It appears that thye believe that a "distributed" service is
more effective than two seperate exchanges.
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--bill
