[40757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet traffic analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Tue Aug 21 13:42:57 2001
From: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:42:25 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108201948051.29364-100000@amethyst.nstc.com>; from sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:49:48PM -0400
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:49:48PM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> MSN uses at least two dialup wholesale outfits. Earthlink uses their own
> modem banks in California, IIRC, and probably also in Atlanta since they
> bought Mindspring, and outsources to at least two other companies in other
> cities.
Post-merger Earthlink uses a combination of outsourced modems and large
aggregation POPs for dense regions, depending (obviously) on the financial
layout for any given area.
This isn't NDA info; any customer can generally find out whether they're
dialing into one of the super-POPs or an outsource by looking at their
own reverse, and/or asking support where the number leads to.
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Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com
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