[5906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AGIS/DIGEX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 29 20:32:00 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: deepak@jain.com (Deepak Jain)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:17:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: robert@portal.dx.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961029191048.18044B-100000@aries.ai.net> from "Deepak Jain" at Oct 29, 96 07:12:22 pm
> Now its a question of whether Digex should run a DS3 connection to
> another NAP [Isn't 4 the requirement?] or continue to pay ANS for the
> circuit.
AGIS has made it a 5-NAP requirement - and the AADS and PacBell NAPs
are not the easiest to get into on 1-day notice.
> This is just a guess, but I suspect Digex will lose more customers if
> they cannot connect to Agis than the other way around. However I am not
> intimately familiar with either networks customer base.
>
> -Deepak.
Digex has sec.gov and other .gov sites... - and a lot of other business
historically in the DC area. Those are of interest.
AGIS has a number of ISPs and some RBOCs as customers of note.
Avi
