[8500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Apr 6 19:54:20 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: dave@fast.net (Dave Van Allen)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:49:20 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=You_Tools_Corp.%l=FNBDC1-970406234652Z-10100@fnbdc1.youtools.com> from "Dave Van Allen" at Apr 6, 97 07:46:52 pm
Actually, it could well be that Sprint's having trouble there - but
Sprintlink has actually been amazingly stable there and at MAE-East
for the last 3-6 months.
But Sprint's always been screwy about Pennsauken...
Avi
> I'm not trying to imply anything, just that there is a current limit on
> customer connections there. Your routing through Pennsauken seems to be
> pretty event free, so maybe Sprint simply wants the NAP to stay optimum
> and not overloaded. This would be a Good Thing.
>
> 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: Sunday, April 06, 1997 7:27 PM
> >To: Dave Van Allen
> >Cc: freedman@netaxs.com; SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM; nanog@merit.edu
> >Subject: Re: Peering points
> >
> >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
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
