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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Internet traffic analysis
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:49:48PM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote: > MSN uses at least two dialup wholesale outfits. Earthlink uses their own > modem banks in California, IIRC, and probably also in Atlanta since they > bought Mindspring, and outsources to at least two other companies in other > cities. Post-merger Earthlink uses a combination of outsourced modems and large aggregation POPs for dense regions, depending (obviously) on the financial layout for any given area. This isn't NDA info; any customer can generally find out whether they're dialing into one of the super-POPs or an outsource by looking at their own reverse, and/or asking support where the number leads to. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [email protected] http://www.lightbearer.com/~lucifer
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