[4811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Sun Sep 29 19:20:19 1996
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Sep 1996 17:50:24 EDT."
<Pine.LNX.3.95.960929173321.6156A-100000@netrail.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:13:19 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> What, providers not wanting to toast their backbone? When you are
> connected to every major exchange and have a huge DS3 network, it cost
> big bucks. We are building a small network and will be spending about
> $250K a month on telco. Why should someone be able to just pay MFS $5700 a
> month and make everybody transit bandwidth to him at just MAE-East?
I think Peter G's original point was that they are spending $8m/yr
(L5m/yr) connecting to just MAE-East. I'm not sure I agree with Peter
that constructing a network beyond that in the US is entirely redundant,
but it is surely illogical to class an $8m network in the same category
as just a $5700 network.
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
