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Re: the Internet Backbone
From: John Curran <jcurran () bbnplanet com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:00:33 -0500
At 10:32 AM 4/5/96, William Allen Simpson wrote:
From: Avi Freedman <freedman () netaxs com> ... Everyone (of importance) agrees that in order to claim you're a backbone you have to (now, not a year ago) be connected to at least 2 public NAPs/MAEs and have at least one circuit that runs at DS3 or higher speed.No, that is not correct. A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the NAP/MAEs in the US. Not just two. All of them.
Bill, I'm not sure that's a viable definition. First, the number of MAE's seems to be increasing withou bound, and secondly, there are points that you don't want to connect due to their performance. Finally, is "connecting" considered the same as "peering"? /John
Current thread:
- Re: the Internet Backbone John Curran (Apr 05)
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- the Internet Backbone William Allen Simpson (Apr 05)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Gordon Cook (Apr 05)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Michael Dillon (Apr 05)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Mark Boolootian (Apr 05)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Avi Freedman (Apr 05)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Christopher E. Stefan (Apr 07)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Avi Freedman (Apr 07)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Roy (Apr 07)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Mark S. Fedor (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Avi Freedman (Apr 08)
- Re: the Internet Backbone Gordon Cook (Apr 05)