[35071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Feb 26 02:51:03 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:47:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Jim Pepin <pepin@usc.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Is there a link to LAAP's aggregate usage statistics?
thanks,
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jim Pepin wrote:
>
> There are two parts to the exchange, known as MAE-LA to some. There is
> the MFS part (MAE-LA) and the LAAP. The LAAP is run by USC/ISI and was
> setup by Jon Postel several years before he passed away. In the last 18
> months USC has setup a dark fiber based sites that make up the LAAP
> exchange. Today we (USC) has space in 1 wilshire and we installed a
> Foundry box with Gb and 100 meg ethernet ports. We used the dark fiber
> to provision 3 Gb ethernets to the USC campus and then from there to
> USC/ISI. If someone wishes to join the exchange we can attach them at
> any of those sites. We have space for members at the USC campus and ISI,
> at 1 wilshire people usually are there already and we have a cage with
> our switch equipment. We will add capacity as needed to keep the
> exchange viable.
>
> Today the LAAP is growing and we are adding regional ISPs, content
> providers, some larger ISPs and most recently the CALREN-2 network,
> which now includes all UC and CSU campuses plus USC, Caltech, JPL and
> Stanford. In the near future it will also include all school districts
> in California. We also can provision some private ATM connections and
> private VLANs for those who want to do private peering and are in 1
> wilshire complex.
>
> The web page for the LAAP is www.laap.net
>
> Jim Pepin
> CTO USC Information Services Division
> Director Center for High Performance Computing and Communications
> USC/ISI
>
>
