Exchanges that matter...

Sat Dec 7 00:29:45 UTC 1996

Yes, thanks for making my point. des

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From:  owner-nanog at merit.edu on behalf of Vadim Antonov
Sent:  Thursday, December 05, 1996 3:59 PM
To:  Danny Stroud
Cc:  nanog at merit.edu
Subject:  RE: Exchanges that matter...

Danny Stroud <dannystroud at msn.com> wrote:

>So how do you reconcile the increasing number of private facilities? Although
>not exchange points in the truest sense ala MAEs and NAPs, they do carry an
>increasing percentage of cross-network traffic. The number of these types of
>facilities will grow. Maybe our difference here is that I count these and
>others do not. des

Er. Private exchanges are there only because public exchanges are running
out of gas.  They have the same problems with routing as public exchanges do.

--vadim