[2892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts - Cix/SL single T1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sat May 11 20:10:03 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 19:09:36 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <9605110416.AA04801@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at May 10, 96 09:16:20 pm
mk@skruz:
] > ps. We'd already be at CIX if certain providers had more than a T1's worth
] > of bandwidth available out of there, specifically to take advantage of the
] > "mandatory peering" situation. Heavily-loaded small pipes to interesting
] > places aren't useful, though.
vix:
] The link you're alluding to is probably SprintLink's. It runs at or near
] capacity for most of every day, and while that's usually an indicator that
] a larger pipe is called for, it's also an indicator that the link is of use
] to at least some folks.
The interesting thing here is to ask WHY SL hasn't upgraded the
line.
The fact that the line hasn't been upgraded could imply that the CIX
isn't of use to SL.
-alan
