[7003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Balbach)
Wed Jan 15 10:38:37 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:30:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
To: JDF <lart@cais.net>
cc: "Todd R. Stroup" <tstroup@optical.fibernet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.970115101809.16023C-100000@cais.cais.com>
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, JDF wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote:
>
> > Oh and another restrictiuon should you ever need it -- to run a $5 piece
> > of ethernet cable 10' from one rack to another (assuming the two racks
> > are diffrent companies eg. a cross connect) is $2000/month.
>
> Wow. I knew it was gonna be a lot, but that's a /whole/ lot.
Yeah. If you were to buy a ethernet handoff from UUNET, it would still
cost $2000 for a ethernet cross-connect. I think the idea is, if you come to
MAE EAST, use the GigaSwitch or don't come. MFS is such a nice company.
.stb
