[6427] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Dec 5 18:07:08 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 14:58:53 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: dannystroud@msn.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Danny Stroud <dannystroud@msn.com> wrote:
>So how do you reconcile the increasing number of private facilities? Although
>not exchange points in the truest sense ala MAEs and NAPs, they do carry an
>increasing percentage of cross-network traffic. The number of these types of
>facilities will grow. Maybe our difference here is that I count these and
>others do not. des
Er. Private exchanges are there only because public exchanges are running
out of gas. They have the same problems with routing as public exchanges do.
--vadim
