[7012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Caputo)
Wed Jan 15 11:39:39 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:37:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970115102402.10322P-100000@bisco.clark.net>
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote:
> 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.
It would be a good idea for MFS to decrease this price for those people
connected to the GigaSwitch. No reason to discourage private
interconnects, especially since they take load off of the GigaSwitch.
Maybe cable organization is the issue...
Chris
