[33329] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Tue Jan 9 00:49:46 2001
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Message-Id: <200101090534.OAA10265@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: <E14Foil-000PxQ-00@rip.psg.com> from Randy Bush at "Jan 8, 2001
06:41:11 pm"
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:34:33 +0859 ()
Cc: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>, deen@slt.lk,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Randy;
> > Maybe. However, l2 is for telco.
> >
> > l2 exchange ponints are a labor suck and are fragile.
> >
> > The right path is l1, though, then, there is less reason to have
> > exchange points.
> >
> > It will be more obvious as the peering speed between two ISPs exceeds
> > that of a single physical interface.
>
> glad to have words of practical wisedom from your experience as a large
> provider.
My humble wisdom is not to have experience with telco style (thus
large) ISPs with impractical (that is, extremely costly)
internetworking.
:-)
Masataka Ohta
