[5647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica Yu)
Wed Oct 23 10:39:38 1996
To: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
cc: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>,
"Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:38:37 EDT."
<Pine.SUN.3.94.961022193737.16168G-100000@unix1.netaxs.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:34:30 -0400
From: Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net>
>*BUT* here is my question. Don't private interconnects essentially
>provide a new apex for the internet? One that pushes interconnects at the
>major exchange points down a level. Sprint, MCI, UUNET, and BBN are
>clearly the four largest players by market share. All of them have
>multiple private interconnects with each other. perhaps ANS does as well.
>AGIS certainly does not. So in this sense, the "6" have not really become
>15 but rather have become 4 or maybe 5.
Gordon,
I have no intention to support or counter your argument. Just trying
to state the fact: ANS does have private interconnections with other
providers and is working on to establish more.
--Jessica
