[47672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ratios
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Thu May 9 15:27:14 2002
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:26:42 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: william@elan.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:39:41AM -0700, william@elan.net wrote:
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> One interesting note is that UUNET does peer with CW itself in number of
> new locations, for example big peering point for both of them is Equinix
> in San Jose. Since I can't imagine those companies going there just to
> peer with each other, they must have number of other peers their as
> well... Equanix people - do you want to comment on this?
No, thats why they went there (well that and to sell transit). :)
It's a lot cheaper and easier to get a crossconnect done within 48 hours
then it is to get a metro OC12. Multiply that by the number of people they
do peer with, and it adds up to a lot.
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