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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: New York City peering points, alternate to NYIIX??
> At 01:10 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Reid Fishler wrote: > >At 12:58 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote: > >>i was looking at connecting to NYIIX, however, i find that Telehouse is > >>sharging $400/month just to jack into their switch. > > >2) $400 a month for a port where a decent amount of traffic is traded and > >where the > >switch is well maintained is not rediculous. > > really. $400/month is trivial compared to what Worldcom charges to connect > to the FDDI ring in "MAE-NY" (111 8th Street), and there are only two peers > on that ring, only one of which (ICI/Digex) is worth anything. my expectations are not that of a MAE, nor FDDI. i'm looking to share news, web cache, ftp/http archives, etc. 10baseT should be adequate. -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research [email protected] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used ] [ communications technology in the days before electronic mail. ] [ They're still easy to find in most large cities. -- Nathaniel Borenstein ]
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