Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re:

Tue Oct 29 01:21:42 UTC 1996

===== Andy lague previously wrote: ====
> 
> At 03:02 AM 10/27/96 MET, Peter Lothberg wrote:
> >> So what's the problem? Basically, one organisation, Ebone, which
> >> operates a fairly large pan-European net, won't peer with others. This
> >> means that European customers connected to non-Ebone connected
> >> providers like Global One lack European connectivity without going
> >> through the US. Ebone provides great connectivity at cost, but the big
> >> US NSPs making presences in Europe naturally don't want to buy
> >> bandwidth from someone like Ebone. We'll see what happens.
> 
> Ebone is not the only way to get European connectivity without going to the
> US. There are many exchange points in Europe providing local traffic
> exchange. Global-One participates in some of these with more in the works.
> Ebone is a good last resort (not to be read as default) path to obscure
> destinations or to networks that will not peer with commercial networks.
> 

Yes there are going to be more, many more peerings throughout the Europe,
and AsiaPacific, and Americas...

> >I don't think this is correct. Ebone peers with other pan-european
> >networks of comparable size, IBM, BT and EUnet comes to my mind.
> >
> >G1 is a customer of Ebone and connects in Paris.
> >
> 
> Correct. Also Stockholm.
> 

Maybe peering with EBONE is also a future possibility when we have more
common presence and comparable size. Andy is right, former Transpac
Sweden is now part of Global IP, and they also have a circuit to
EBONE at DGIX.

> Regards,
> Andy - speaking as a former Global-One employee
> 

Thanks Andy. When is that lunch going to be? :-)

Jun
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