[8498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Apr 6 19:37:54 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: dave@fast.net (Dave Van Allen)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=You_Tools_Corp.%l=FNBDC1-970406232526Z-10099@fnbdc1.youtools.com> from "Dave Van Allen" at Apr 6, 97 07:25:26 pm
Interesting...
We've seen the SprintNAP as a good place to send data to Sprintlink
and MCI - and UUNET, when we were peering with them there.
Avi
> FYI Sprint is not allowing anything larger than 6Mb from Pensauken,
> circa April 4, 1997, for customer connections that is.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm)
> dave@fast.net (610) 289-1100 http://www.fast.net
> FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Avi Freedman [SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com]
> >Sent: Saturday, April 05, 1997 5:03 AM
> >To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM
> >Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> >Subject: Re: Peering points
> >
> >> 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
> >
>
