Peering points
Avi Freedman
freedman at netaxs.com
Sat Apr 5 10:02:39 UTC 1997
> Or is the entire thing irrelevant, because everyone is moving to private
> bilateral connections. And the important thing is how many providers
> does someone peer, not how many exchange points they're connected to.
> For the price of one Sprint-NAP connection, I can get several connections
> to Canada. And we have a lot more customers in Canada than at the
> Sprint-NAP. We already peer with everyone at the Sprint-NAP, or been
> turned down by them elsewhere. So one more exchange point doesn't buy
> much.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
The SprintNAP is a much less congested place than MAE-East (though most
providers also have less capacity out of it [besides Sprintlink, GSL,
ICM, etc...])...
Avi
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