[29325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Jun 17 18:33:28 2000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Date: 17 Jun 2000 15:31:15 -0700
In-Reply-To: sean@donelan.com's message of "17 Jun 2000 12:42:17 -0700"
Message-ID: <g31z1waqj0.fsf@redpaul.mibh.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:
> I don't understand your distinction. Several companies sell both hosting
> services and network services. GlobalCenter/Crossing, Genuity/BBN and
> Worldcom/UUNET have large "global" optical networks and hosting divisions.
Those companies also sell circuit-based services, i.e., services that do
not require hosting in order to accept delivery of them. Genuity's home
page mentions DSL, for example. These are fine companies, with fine
networks, but they are not "hosting" companies any more than making tanks
in WW2 made Chrysler into a weapons company or making keyboards and mice
makes Microsoft a hardware company. If it's just one thing they do, then
it doesn't make sense to label the company by it.
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Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
SVP for Internet Services, MFNX
M.I.B.H. Inc. is a subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc.
