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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chris A. Icide wrote: > Now that I've thrown in my share of late night sarcasm, It would interest > me greatly to understand exactly why you came to the following > conclusions: (...) > 4. A city the size of Atlanta needs more than 1 Exchange Point Well, considering that the only options for the entire southeast consist of A) Dallas, and B) DC, I'd say that you have a large amount of traffic which has to be long-hauled at significant expense to the nearest exchange point. Ever since rural electrification was finished, we southerners tend to enjoy our electronics like everyone else, and while the northeast and California are virtually drowning in access points, and while the mid-west has Chicago, we've got squat. Consider if you will how much traffic comes out of places like Florida and Research Triangle Park and the number of relatively large cities throughout the southeast (Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Charlotte, etc.) which are proximate to no access point. For all of these places, Atlanta is the logical and really only major communications hub. Virtually all of the major backbones centralize their southeastern operations out of here, and it is the major hub for telephoony as well. I'd say that Atlanta is a prime battleground, and that the southeast is the last major area of the US without a serious exchange point, which is why I predict that there will be three competing NAPs in Atlanta within the next six months. Of course, only one will win. Now, if I could get one of them in my apartment... __ Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering Mindspring Enterprises [email protected] (800) 719 4664, x2804 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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