New MAE-EAST

Wed Nov 5 21:35:23 UTC 1997

On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 01:50:59PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> 
> I don't think that the problems of MAE-EAST necessarily indicate
> problems with the exchange point concept in general.  Others have
> indicated satisfaction with exhange points run by other parties.  What
> the problems of MAE-EAST indicate to me is that FDDI/GigaSwitches are
> not the appropriate technology for MAE-EAST sized exchanges and that MFS
> is the wrong company to be running an exhange point.

I don't really fault MFS with these problems.  Show me another
exchange that is trying to pass as much traffic as MAE-east is and
functioning properly.

Plus which, I don't know of any major players who are overly happy
with public exchanges.  That's why they are going to private
interconnects.

Alec

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