[5722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@relcom.eu.net)
Fri Oct 25 15:33:57 1996
From: alex@relcom.eu.net
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 96 23:17:39 +0400
To: jdd@vbc.net, lists@reflections.mindspring.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > I think the argument is undermined by the fact that peering in Europe is
> > in a fairly dismal state. Were there a MAE-{London, Paris, Prague} I
> > somehow think that the big five at least might throw a T3 or two over.
>
> "MAE London" is called the LINX and the T3s have been thrown over.
>
> We peer with 30 other networks at the LINX in London, including GSL
> (Sprintlink), Pipex (uu.net), and EUnet GB (AKA PSI). If you watch the
There is interesting question - does SprintLink use this peering
for the traffic _from USA_ to _you_, or for it's UK customers only?
We have one example - there is Relcom there, and we are presented on
our M9-IX exchange point. New provider (small-small there, XXX Global
Networks, the Russian branch) asks us to make peering with them.
We asked - if this allow us to get traffic _from_ and _to_ XXX Global
via this link - _no, this will be peering with russian branch only_ was
the answer. Guess what have we answered? /it's not important what really XXX was/
> Someone more cynical than I might even say that the US company has used
> the UK company's money to buy the UK company.
> --
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> http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684
>
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