Peering points

Sun Apr 6 23:26:45 UTC 1997

Interesting...
We've seen the SprintNAP as a good place to send data to Sprintlink
and MCI - and UUNET, when we were peering with them there.

Avi

> FYI Sprint is not allowing anything larger than 6Mb from Pensauken,
> circa April 4, 1997, for customer connections that is.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm)
> dave at fast.net (610) 289-1100  http://www.fast.net
> FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:	Avi Freedman [SMTP:freedman at netaxs.com]
> >Sent:	Saturday, April 05, 1997 5:03 AM
> >To:	SEAN at SDG.DRA.COM
> >Cc:	nanog at merit.edu
> >Subject:	Re: Peering points
> >
> >> 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
> >
> 