[677] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Size of NREN Market
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net)
Fri May 10 11:41:10 1991
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri May 10 10:41:09 1991
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 10-MAY-91 10:41
cook@tmn
Craig says that
"the NSFnet backbone already has more switching nodes than the number of
long distance nodes in most countries." And also something about 2
orders of magnitude more routers than the phone network.
I am not doubting this but need to understand better what is meant. What
is a switching node? Is it quivalent to a backbone node on nsfnet?
Could it be equivalent to a POP in the sense of a POP in MCI's national
network.
I understand there are at least 140 or so of those. And do you really
have the equivalent of routers in the phone network? Routers don't need
to worry about call recording and billing while telephone switches do.
Right?
