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Is there a link to LAAP's aggregate usage statistics? thanks, Deepak Jain AiNET On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jim Pepin wrote: > > There are two parts to the exchange, known as MAE-LA to some. There is > the MFS part (MAE-LA) and the LAAP. The LAAP is run by USC/ISI and was > setup by Jon Postel several years before he passed away. In the last 18 > months USC has setup a dark fiber based sites that make up the LAAP > exchange. Today we (USC) has space in 1 wilshire and we installed a > Foundry box with Gb and 100 meg ethernet ports. We used the dark fiber > to provision 3 Gb ethernets to the USC campus and then from there to > USC/ISI. If someone wishes to join the exchange we can attach them at > any of those sites. We have space for members at the USC campus and ISI, > at 1 wilshire people usually are there already and we have a cage with > our switch equipment. We will add capacity as needed to keep the > exchange viable. > > Today the LAAP is growing and we are adding regional ISPs, content > providers, some larger ISPs and most recently the CALREN-2 network, > which now includes all UC and CSU campuses plus USC, Caltech, JPL and > Stanford. In the near future it will also include all school districts > in California. We also can provision some private ATM connections and > private VLANs for those who want to do private peering and are in 1 > wilshire complex. > > The web page for the LAAP is www.laap.net > > Jim Pepin > CTO USC Information Services Division > Director Center for High Performance Computing and Communications > USC/ISI > >
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