[3558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T3 or not to T3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Jul 22 02:33:21 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 02:23:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: Stephen Stuart <stuart@pa.dec.com>, michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607220533.BAA24715@netaxs.com>
On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> I'm not arguing that getting transit via an XP fabric is a bad idea -
> as long as the XP provider gets beefy enough switching and as long as
> the transit providers have enough ports into their routers from the
> XP fabric, it's a fine idea - much better than lots of rack-rack cables.
>
> But boxes w/ hard drives are a different story IMO.
Agreed. IMO, the best place for these things is one hops away from an XP,
either in a provider's network or behind a content provider's router that's
connected to the XP.
-dorian
