Peering points

Sun Apr 6 23:25:26 UTC 1997

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
>