[4735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (markd@cais.cais.com)
Thu Sep 26 19:23:02 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 19:22:52 -0700
To: cosmo@olywa.net, rob@rjl.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: markd@cais.cais.com
Jay:
We do this frequently and with a 2501 or a 2514. It must be a Cisco router
and sometimes will need more memory. There is NO additional charge for those
reselling IP services at CAIS. The CAIS service agreement is also a
month to month agreement. Call me if you would like to find out more.
Mark Dezagottis
CAIS Internet
(703) 448-4470 x417
>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:45:39 +0000
>From: Jay Stewart <cosmo@olywa.net>
>To: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
>Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
>
>> I spoke to a sprint salesperson about 2 weeks ago and was told that I
>> could not get any kind of BGP4 peering with Sprint unless I had a
>> Cisco 7000 series router.
>
>This is my experience also, althought I was able to get my sales
>weasel to say that they might except a 45xx series if it had
>sufficient memory, as some "exceptions" had been granted on a "case
>by case" basis.
>
>As a reseller of IP services they will not manage my router for me,
>but said I still had to have a Cisco(tm) router, even if I'm not
>peering BGP.
>
>
>
>Jay Stewart
>Vice President
>Olympia Networking Services - "Olympia's Premier Internet Access"
>Phone (360) 753.3636 Fax (360) 357.6160 http://www.olywa.net/
>
>
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Mark Dezagottis
CAIS Internet
6861 Elm St., 3rd Floor
McLean, VA 22101
USA
Tel:(703) 448-4470 x417
Fax:(703) 790-8805
markd@cais.com
http://www.cais.com
http://www.cgxtelecom.com
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