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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: a little thought on exchanging traffic
Yes. Actaully there has been a bit of hypothetical conversation about this very topic chez moi. I suppose this could be set up as a sort of national extension of the CIX. The question that needs to be answered if such a national ATM "exchange" were to be created is the issue of what exactly it could be used for. Do you set it up like a national exchange, and only allow providers to exchange traffic with other providers, or do you set it up more like the Ebone, allowing providers to connect in multiple metropolitan areas and use the national exchange's bandwidth instead of building their own backbone? And do you set up a national ATM cloud connecting all the existing NAPs and allow anyone to peer with anyone else anywhere, or simply have a national ATM cloud directly connecting providers, or both? Of course, it would be a bit harder to get all the FDDI NAPs onto ATM but isn't WorldCom supposed to have ATM at MAE-East by Q3 this year (leaving only PAIX and SprintNAP)? At this point, sending packets via FedEx seems to be more reliable than MAE-East, (FedEx is a little slower but at least ALL the packets get there eventually) so any functional alternative is welcome... -Blake --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Willis 703-448-4470x483 Network Engineer, New Customers [email protected] CAIS Internet, a CGX Communications Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 19 May 1998 [email protected] wrote: > Anyone thought about eliminating large physical exchange points and replacing > them with a more distributed architecture? > > Multiple data centers interconnected over ATM in a single metro area run by > indepdenant entities who are free to provide any level of service or value > add they wish. > > Thoughts? > > Ben > [email protected] > >
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