Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP
Todd Graham Lewis
lists at reflections.mindspring.com
Mon Oct 28 21:24:29 UTC 1996
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chris A. Icide wrote:
> Now that I've thrown in my share of late night sarcasm, It would interest
> me greatly to understand exactly why you came to the following
> conclusions:
(...)
> 4. A city the size of Atlanta needs more than 1 Exchange Point
Well, considering that the only options for the entire southeast consist
of A) Dallas, and B) DC, I'd say that you have a large amount of traffic
which has to be long-hauled at significant expense to the nearest
exchange point.
Ever since rural electrification was finished, we southerners tend to
enjoy our electronics like everyone else, and while the northeast and
California are virtually drowning in access points, and while the
mid-west has Chicago, we've got squat.
Consider if you will how much traffic comes out of places like Florida
and Research Triangle Park and the number of relatively large cities
throughout the southeast (Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Nashville,
Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Charlotte, etc.) which are proximate to no access
point.
For all of these places, Atlanta is the logical and really only major
communications hub. Virtually all of the major backbones centralize
their southeastern operations out of here, and it is the major hub for
telephoony as well.
I'd say that Atlanta is a prime battleground, and that the southeast is
the last major area of the US without a serious exchange point, which is
why I predict that there will be three competing NAPs in Atlanta within
the next six months. Of course, only one will win.
Now, if I could get one of them in my apartment...
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Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering
Mindspring Enterprises tlewis at mindspring.com (800) 719 4664, x2804
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