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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New MAE-EAST
On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 01:50:59PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: > > 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. I don't really fault MFS with these problems. Show me another exchange that is trying to pass as much traffic as MAE-east is and functioning properly. Plus which, I don't know of any major players who are overly happy with public exchanges. That's why they are going to private interconnects. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - [email protected] | Erols Internet Services, INC. | |Network Engineer | Springfield, VA. | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
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