RE: Peering points

["Steve Schnell, Sprint Corporation" <schnell () gsd sprint com>]

David, et al:

You must understand that SprintLink and the NAP, which is run by Sprint
Government Systems Division, are totally separate organizations.  Actually,
SprintLink is a customer of the NAP - just like all other ISPs there.  It
is a policy of GSD to limit its NAP customers to DS3 and higher rates.  We
don't support T1s because we feel that speed is inappropriate for peering
with DS3 ISPs.  We have migrated all our customers onto the GIGAswitches
and we no longer support FDDI concentration.  Terminating a T1 customer to
a NAP GIGAswitch would be inefficient use of a switch port and may
contribute to the so-called head-of-line blocking phenomena.  Also, T1s are
a headache to wire and support.  They break far more frequently than DS3s.


Steve

At 19:46 -0400 4.6.97, Dave Van Allen wrote:
> 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




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