[5177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Creating exchanges [Was: Re: MAE-East - 30%]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Oct 10 20:26:11 1996
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:17:31 -0400
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
This is also the reason why we [collectively] are encouraging the
creation of local exchange points outside of North America. The
situation where two providers in The Phillipines (for example)
have to back-haul traffic to the US to exchange bits is contributing
to the overall problem. This needs to be fixed, but it certainly
won't happen overnight, primarily due to the economic situation
in the general locale. The possibility to correct this problem
increases as deregulation happens.
- paul
At 02:08 PM 10/9/96 -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
>Isn't this the reason that MAE-East is at 30%, i.e. there are now many
>private interconnects between tier 1 NSP's to offload traffic from major
>exchanges like MAE-East?
>
>Not to mention that MAE-East is no longer the only major interconnect, a
>fact that seems to be taking some time to work it's way into
>net.mythology.
>
