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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New MAE-EAST
Alec H. Peterson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 12:46:50PM -0800, Adam Hersh wrote: > > With all of the problems with MAE-EAST..... > > > > Any plans from anyone to create a ATM exchange point in the DC area? > > I can't think of a reason why somebody would do that. > > All of the problems that mae-east is having is a clear sign that > providers need to move their big peers off of the public fabric and > onto private interconnects. Aside from the engineering problems, it > just seems so difficult to justify having such an important part of a > backbone's existance controlled by a third party. As these recent > problems have illustrated, either that third party is either not > capable or not willing to fix the problems. Either way, the end > result is the same. I don't think that the problems of MAE-EAST necessarily indicate problems with the exchange point concept in general. Others have indicated satisfaction with exhange points run by other parties. What the problems of MAE-EAST indicate to me is that FDDI/GigaSwitches are not the appropriate technology for MAE-EAST sized exchanges and that MFS is the wrong company to be running an exhange point. It would appear to me that there is an opportunity for a new player to get into the exchange point game. Since ATM seems to be a controversial choice to build exchange points, has anyone thought about using fast ethernet with an eventual transition to gigabit ethernet when gigabit ethernet becomes more mainstream? Jeff
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