[8494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sat Apr 5 05:09:32 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:02:39 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970401142102.f66e@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Apr 1, 97 02:21:02 pm
> Or is the entire thing irrelevant, because everyone is moving to private
> bilateral connections. And the important thing is how many providers
> does someone peer, not how many exchange points they're connected to.
> For the price of one Sprint-NAP connection, I can get several connections
> to Canada. And we have a lot more customers in Canada than at the
> Sprint-NAP. We already peer with everyone at the Sprint-NAP, or been
> turned down by them elsewhere. So one more exchange point doesn't buy
> much.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
The SprintNAP is a much less congested place than MAE-East (though most
providers also have less capacity out of it [besides Sprintlink, GSL,
ICM, etc...])...
Avi
