[7078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Jan 16 03:50:26 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:06:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701160545.VAA14344@wisdom.home.vix.com>
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> Brett writes:
> > considered, isn't really needed. Rather than waste their money on equipment
> > that all in all just doesn't need to be there, why not make it more economic
> > for local players to get involved and cross connect to eachother. In the end
> That means with 19 ISP's in a GIGAswitch-free room, there are 342 FIP's at
> a cost of, what, US$12000 each after discount? I'll betcha I can buy quite
> a few GIGAswitches for US$4.1M. Oops, that's not a fair comparison, since
> with a GIGAswitch I also need 19 FIP's. Figure that a fully configured
> GIGAswitch retails without discount for US$80K and that 19 FIPs are going
> to run another US$228K. That's still a *lot* less than 2*sum(n-1).
This is probably a worst-case scenario. What about Ethernet cross-connects
using the 6 port cards? Or zero-mile T1's using the 8 port serial cards?
And you are assuming a full mesh which isn't necessarily what people need.
I don't think you can generalize about what a provider wants from an
Exchange Point especially not in a world in which exchange points are
breeding like rabbits.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
