[5864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jun John Wu)
Mon Oct 28 20:39:02 1996
From: Jun John Wu <jun@wolfox.gsl.net>
To: alague@cisco.com (Andy lague)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:21:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: roll@Stupi.SE, jakob@jubii.dk, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961029040400.006887e0@diablo.cisco.com> from "Andy lague" at Oct 28, 96 08:04:00 pm
Reply-To: Jun John Wu <jun@wolfox.gsl.net>
===== Andy lague previously wrote: ====
>
> At 03:02 AM 10/27/96 MET, Peter Lothberg wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Ebone is not the only way to get European connectivity without going to the
> US. There are many exchange points in Europe providing local traffic
> exchange. Global-One participates in some of these with more in the works.
> Ebone is a good last resort (not to be read as default) path to obscure
> destinations or to networks that will not peer with commercial networks.
>
Yes there are going to be more, many more peerings throughout the Europe,
and AsiaPacific, and Americas...
> >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.
> >
>
> Correct. Also Stockholm.
>
Maybe peering with EBONE is also a future possibility when we have more
common presence and comparable size. Andy is right, former Transpac
Sweden is now part of Global IP, and they also have a circuit to
EBONE at DGIX.
> Regards,
> Andy - speaking as a former Global-One employee
>
Thanks Andy. When is that lunch going to be? :-)
Jun
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