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simple, and dumnb Q: hence this fddi is at 90%: why not add another onte? It is bridged anyways. Mike On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Avi Freedman wrote: > >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- > > Just wanted to point out that the shared FDDI costs $4250/month and a > private port on the Gigaswitch costs $5000/month. Both include local > loop delivered on-net in DC. Not a huge difference, and I don't think > anyone's suggested that the Gigaswitch is close to being maxed out. > And they're not putting > 10 users on an etherswitch with a 100mbit FDDI > link into the Gigaswitch, so those shouldn't be saturated. > > Avi > > ---------------------------------------------------------- IDT Michael F. Nittmann --------- Senior Network Architect \ / (201) 928 1000 xt 500 ------- (201) 928 1888 FAX \ / [email protected] --- V IOS
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