[901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Nov 5 20:26:20 1995
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: loco@mfsdatanet.com (Jonathan Heiliger)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 20:17:51 -0500 (EST)
Cc: bsimpson@morningstar.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9511051652.ZM1583@tweek.mfsdatanet.com> from "Jonathan Heiliger" at Nov 5, 95 04:52:15 pm
>Now then, I'm sure the appropriate engineering staff at each respective
>organization is weighing whether to change their MAE connection to a Gigaswitch
>port, connect directly to certain other NSPs, or even to build their own
>exchange point. My only closing points would be that, as far as I can
>determine, both Ameritech and MFS seem to be handling problems reasonably well.
>One of the reasons I joined the MFS team was because of their attitude to
>quickly increase service capacity and/or to respond to customer's requests.
>Rather than doing things too quickly (wasting cash) or doing it too slowly and
>having a bunch of un-happy customers.
>
>speaking for myself...
>
>-jh-
Just wanted to point out that the shared FDDI costs $4250/month and a
private port on the Gigaswitch costs $5000/month. Both include local
loop delivered on-net in DC. Not a huge difference, and I don't think
anyone's suggested that the Gigaswitch is close to being maxed out.
And they're not putting > 10 users on an etherswitch with a 100mbit FDDI
link into the Gigaswitch, so those shouldn't be saturated.
Avi
