[7885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP architecture/interoperability Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Fri Feb 28 09:47:22 1997
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: mmaszcza@notes.cc.bellcore.com (Michael W. Maszczak)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 06:40:56 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9702281407.AA28891@notesgw2.cc.bellcore.com> from "Michael W. Maszczak" at Feb 28, 97 09:07:18 am
>
> I am trying to understand the Network architecture of the current
> NAPs and the technology/interoperability/operational issues that
> they currently face. Thus I have a few questions:
>
> 1. Is FDDI still used within NAPs?
>
> 2. How prevalent is ATM in the NAPs? What Interfaces
> are prevalent? What are scheduled to be phased in?
>
> 3. Are ATM DS-3 DSUs still used?
>
> 4. What are the issues to deal with in peering with the Route Arbiter?
>
> 5. What are some current problems facing the NAPs?
>
> 6. What are good repositories for NAP information?
>
> 7. Have there been any interoperability issues that have come up in
> with current or new technology?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Maszczak
> Bellcore
You might find some interesting information at the following URLs
www.ra.net
info.ra.net
From my limited exposure, I'll take a crack at some answers:
1 - yes, at some of them
2 - limited to a small number, say 3
3 - yes
4 - can't do justice to this in one line.
5 - line card rates
6 - see the above urls
7 - yes
--
--bill
