Ungodly packet loss rates

Tue Oct 22 21:34:52 UTC 1996

At 15:39 10/22/96, Kent W. England wrote:
>...
>But there isn't any gee-whiz technology that you can do at a 
>private interconnect that you can't do at a NAP/MAE. Open NAPs 
>aren't bad engineering.

While there is no difference from a technology perspective,
there's also no benefit to be gained by interconnecting large
networks at a public (as opposed to private) interconnects.

One can certainly make the argument that running large traffic
flows through shared interconnects is bad engineering if a 
private interconnects for such traffic are available.

/John