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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 Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 06:58:56AM -0800, Kent W. England wrote: > There is no point agreeing with the Big Backbone Network Engineers that the > MAEs suck. It is in their best interest that the MAEs suck, the CIX is > crippled, you aren't bugging them to plug into a high perf exchange, and > that you, the little ISP, go out of business soon. THEY have private > interconnects which you can't join. Find a co-lo where you can > cross-connect without being robbed or build your own NAP, just don't use > DEC-designed Gigaswitches and FDDI. Use full duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet > switch or find an old Fore switch cheap. At the risk of litigation, Kent makes a good point here: how much of the problems we see are engineering based, and how much are (let's say it softly: political? This is right on the edge of topic for the list; construct your replies carefully, or cross-post to nodlist, per reply-to. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592
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