[2868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FWD: Pacific Bell's LA NAP in service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pushpendra Mohta)
Wed May 8 02:16:43 1996
From: Pushpendra Mohta <pushp@cerf.net>
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 23:13:56 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: inet-access@earth.com, kwe@6sigmanets.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605072153.AA13332@zephyr.isi.edu> from "Bill Manning" at May 7, 96 02:53:05 pm
Bill Manning writes:
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> >
> > 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.
If they can pull this inter-lata connection off without involving an
IXC, they would be selling long distance services immediately
rather than NAP services ;-) I understand PacBell will be ready to
provide inter-lata service early next year.
--pushpendra
Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net +1 619 455 3908
Director, CERFnet http://www.cerf.net +1 619 455 3995 (FAX)
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> --bill
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