[8343] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FYI: BBN/MCI Peering Change 3/31/97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Browning)
Sat Mar 22 14:27:26 1997
From: Jim Browning <jfbb@ATMnet.net>
To: "'Dave Curado'" <davec@ziplink.net>
Cc: "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 11:05:09 -0800
>From: Dave Curado[SMTP:davec@ziplink.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 1997 2:15 AM
>
>My intention, by the way, is not to simply pick nits over a posting.
>I have heard in the past that there is at least one major provider
>who sells transit through the naps. Regardless of whether that is
>an OK thing to do or not, I am sincerely interested in knowing if
>that is true.
There are two different flavors of this:
A. Providing transit over the NAP fabric (ATM or FDDI)
B. Providing transit via a private interconnect which happens to be at a
NAP facility.
You should speak to each provider yourself, with an awareness that this
approach is avoided because of the fact that getting traffic both through
and _away from_ the exchanges is a serious concern of providers carrying a
lot of traffic. This problem is exacerbated if transit connections are
accepted at the exchange points.
There may a time when "Purchased Peering" becomes the chosen approach for
what you are seeking...
--
Jim
