[5797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Sun Oct 27 02:59:13 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 96 3:02:44 MET
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: jakob@jubii.dk (Jakob Faarvang)
Cc: nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:07:04 GMT
> So what's the problem? Basically, one organisation, Ebone, which
> operates a fairly large pan-European net, won't peer with others. This
> means that European customers connected to non-Ebone connected
> providers like Global One lack European connectivity without going
> through the US. Ebone provides great connectivity at cost, but the big
> US NSPs making presences in Europe naturally don't want to buy
> bandwidth from someone like Ebone. We'll see what happens.
>
> - Jakob Faarvang
> cybernet.dk
I don't think this is correct. Ebone peers with other pan-european
networks of comparable size, IBM, BT and EUnet comes to my mind.
G1 is a customer of Ebone and connects in Paris.
--Peter
