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On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:24:29PM -0700, J.D. Falk wrote: > > AFAIK, there are only two types of exchanges out there today: > > 1. Switched Ethernet and/or FDDI > 2. ATM I guess you mean 'only two types of _public_ exchanges'. The answer we all come up with might very well be that exchanging traffic over public media is just not a good idea. The network might very well have gotten to the point that it just doesn't make sense to have such a vital piece of it completely under a third parties control. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - [email protected] | Erols Internet Services, INC. | |Network Engineer | Springfield, VA. | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
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