[3578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T3 or not to T3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Jul 22 16:52:27 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:46:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: karl@best.com, dorian@cic.net, stuart@pa.dec.com, michael@memra.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960722164025.32709B-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Jul 22, 96 04:42:25 pm
> The delay at MAE-East is because some larger providers have just 1 DS3
> connection when they need more. The gigaswitch can do almost 1000 times
> what it is doing now. The OC-3s that are connecting the gigaswitches
> together also have plenty of room on them.
>
> Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
It's possible that some providers may not have the time or resources
to increase their bandwidth to MAE-East; also, it's possible that
some of them may decide not to, choosing instead private interconnects
or other exchange points.
The point being made was that MAE-East is not necessarily the best
place to be for robustness and performance; the point stands even
though, as you assert, MAE-East is (still) the largest public exchange
point in the known multiverse.
Avi
