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Re: Info on MAE-EAST
From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh () nol net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 06:18:29 -0600 (CST)
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:
This is probably a worst-case scenario. What about Ethernet cross-connects using the 6 port cards? Or zero-mile T1's using the 8 port serial cards? And you are assuming a full mesh which isn't necessarily what people need. I don't think you can generalize about what a provider wants from an Exchange Point especially not in a world in which exchange points are breeding like rabbits.
Maybe, maybe not, I've done a fair bit of watching to see where packets are flying in my short time. Now I don't pretend to be an expert, not by a long shot, and someone spank me if I'm way off but... From what I've seen, in any given city (assume a reasonable size of 200,000+) 50% or more of the traffic is local. By providing reasonable rates for private interconnects at a local peering point, one can not only speed up the response for customers but cut down on a great deal of traffic that needn't circle the globe to get to its destination. If we cut down on the amount of hops packets have to take, we cut down on congestion, etc.. or am I just being idealistic :) [-] Brett L. Hawn (blh @ nol dot net) [-] [-] Networks On-Line - Houston, Texas [-] [-] 713-467-7100 [-] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: Info on MAE-EAST, (continued)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Brett L. Hawn (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Jeremy Porter (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Nathan Stratton (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Alec H. Peterson (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Nathan Stratton (Jan 17)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Alec H. Peterson (Jan 17)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Paul A Vixie (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Robert Laughlin (Jan 17)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Michael Dillon (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Brett L. Hawn (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Dorian R. Kim (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Howard C. Berkowitz (Jan 16)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST dave o'leary (Jan 17)
- Re: Info on MAE-EAST Howard C. Berkowitz (Jan 17)