[7116] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Harms-Merbitz)
Fri Jan 17 18:18:31 1997
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:09:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
To: David Schwartz <davids@wiznet.net>
cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970117105701.632M-100000@davids.wiznet.net>
That's pretty much the nightmare scenario for the long-haul networks.
Frictionless capitalism with buying decision being made by machines, i.e.
routers, based on the current state of the network. The product (long haul
packet transport) becomes a total commodity with non-existent customer
loyalty. Kewl.
Dirk
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> I could equally well see a colo center where the plan is to run a
> DS3 to the colo center, put a router there, and buy transit from as many
> providers as you wanted by connecting to each provider's switch. For
> example, a room where Sprint, MCI, BBNPlanet, PSI, Netcom, and whoever
> else wanted to come would each have their own Ethernet switch or Gigaswitch.
>
> ISPs could then colo a router at the center and with no telco loop
> cost obtain transit connections from whatever combination of providers
> they wished. If the operators of the colo center had their own regional
> OC48 sonet ring, the cost to bring a DS3 to the center could be quite low
> for both ISPs and the big boys.
>
> DS
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> > I guess I was visualizing something quite different from current
> > exchanges. Rather than have an Ethernet switch I was thinking of using
> > Ethernet point-to-point. And the exchange point was more like a big colo
> > center in which you could set up as many private interconnects as you
> > want at the lowest possible cost (interface ports plus installing a cable
> > versus running T1's or DS3's across town).
>
