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On Nov 4, 10:16pm, William Allen Simpson wrote: > My solution is to take the contracts away from MFS and Ameritech > effective immediately, and grant them to someone who knows what they are > doing. >-- End of excerpt from William Allen Simpson I have to echo Mike's comments... MFS offers the MAE interconnect service to customers who choose to purchase it. (As far as I know) As you infered and Mike said; portions of MAE-East are definately nearing saturation. Specifically the shared FDDI portion which; according to my diagram contains the MCI vBNS connection, ANS (they also have a Gigaswitch port, however I believe their shared FDDI connection is preferred), and BBN (keep in mind, it might not be correct :). All of these folks are sucking up a good bit of bandwidth all their own -- combine them and you have the equivalent of a fire hydrant pumping water through garden hoses. Now then, I'm sure the appropriate engineering staff at each respective organization is weighing whether to change their MAE connection to a Gigaswitch port, connect directly to certain other NSPs, or even to build their own exchange point. My only closing points would be that, as far as I can determine, both Ameritech and MFS seem to be handling problems reasonably well. One of the reasons I joined the MFS team was because of their attitude to quickly increase service capacity and/or to respond to customer's requests. Rather than doing things too quickly (wasting cash) or doing it too slowly and having a bunch of un-happy customers. speaking for myself... -jh-
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