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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote: > > Ameritech NAP > > Atlanta NAP :-) > > MAE-East > > MAE-West > > PACBell NAP > > Sprint NAP > > In terms of meeting peering requirements, the above list is sufficient > except that the ":-)" has to be read as "just kidding". Yes, for now. > Unfortunately for my ulcer, more was said: Sorry. > > CIX may be worth connecting to as a sales thing, and PAIX is not worth > > connecting to yet because there are so many NAPs in that area. > > Connecting to CIX won't help your sales. It does help your connectivity if > you aren't otherwise able to buy T3 lines to everywhere in the universe, and > it's a fine backup for folks who _can_ afford T3 lines to all of known space. Well it sure will if you are going after gov contracts. I have have bid on several that you had to be connected to CIX in order to bid. > PAIX is the best NAP-like object in the Bay Area, in my biased view (I'm a > consultant to Digital so the bias is strong). They have better facilities > than MAE-W and they aren't subject to ATM's cell tax and PUC vagueries the Yes, 100% > way Pac Bell's is. The only thing they don't have is a lot of people to > peer with, which is a good reason _but_the_only_reason_ why they are not in > first place on the west coast. Yes, true, it would be great of MAE-West of PACBell just moved to PAIX, but I don't think it is worth adding a view when you have established NAPs in the area. I learned this when I when I was building Atlanta-NAP I wanted to build a place better then PAIX (and they did the best job so far), but I found out that people don't care. If I build a NAP that was 100 times nicer then MAE-East (and that would not be hard at all) people would not just move. > The higher quality of the facilities and remote hands at PAIX ought to lead > most newcomers to the Bay Area to locate their POP in Palo Alto and run a > T3 line to MAE-W or PB-NAP or both. The remote hands people at PAIX are Yep, that is what we did until our POP is built. > not knuckle dragging frame techs, they are senior-sysadmin-quality > technical people who you would be lucky to be able to hire full time if > they were available. This makes a huge difference when you want to know > WHICH red light is blinking. > > On the other hand the original question was about what you need to connect > to in order to meet Sprint's or AGIS' peering requirements, and the original > answer (a) was correct and (b) did not list DEC PAIX. Therefore I'm really > not trying to change the answer, I'm answering an entirely different question. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email [email protected] Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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