[29327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Jun 17 19:02:20 2000
Date: 17 Jun 2000 16:00:08 -0700
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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I think you are making an argument by definition. No "hosting" company
has a global optical backbone, because if it had a global optical backbone
its not a hosting company. No tier 1 provider buys transit, because if it
bought transit it wouldn't be a tier 1 provider.
On Sat, 17 June 2000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 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.
