[32847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metro-area fiber providers (WAS Re: Cogent Communications?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Clauson)
Thu Dec 14 21:01:05 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:46:50 -0700
From: Matt Clauson <mec@dotorg.org>
To: Dave Cooper <dcooper@magi.gulp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20001214101340.A15599@magi.gulp.org>; from dcooper@magi.gulp.org on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:13:41AM -0700
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:13:41AM -0700, Dave Cooper wrote:
> Not that i am even remotely defending Cogent but
> how does Yipes plan to offer Internet at Gigabit
> speeds? Or is that more marketing fud....
>
> Quoted from Yipes web page:
>
> "Yipes is Faster. Yipes brings you the Internet at
> fiber-optic speeds, up to 1 Gbps"
I'm not the best at explaining the technology... But the short version is that we're
deploying our fiber as metro area fiber "rings".... Using Gig-E fiber, not SONET.
To bring down the data speed to the customer rate, we rate-limit at the ethernet interface
facing the customer (we drop a smart switch in each building where we have a customer lit).
Depending on the customer's requirements (speed, latency, equipment) is what kind of switch
we deploy -- we can provision copper 10(0)baseT, or gig-e fiber.
--mec
