[3554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T3 or not to T3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Jul 22 02:21:40 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
Reply-To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960721163754.15875C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On 21 Jul 1996, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>
> > of this into account, I'm really leaning towards a solution that involves
> > lots of small pipes to lots of providers. Essentially eliminating the
> > need for 90% of our packets to traverse NAPs by using each backbone
> > mostly for their own customers.
>
> Are you sure you can't accomplish this with your own national backbone and
> private interconnects with the major providers similar to what Sprint/MCI
> are doing to keep traffic off the NAP's?
I believe the current ante to get into this game is DS3 infrastructure with
presence at 3 exchange points. This is a slightly different order of magnitude
than what's Dean seems to be talking about.
-dorian
