Private interconnects

Sat Nov 29 02:22:49 UTC 1997

  Gordon --

  Why don't you mail noc at company.net and find out?

  Or better yet, do some creative traceroutes.  I think we covered
  traceroute -g this week :-)

  Anyone that does definitively know, is likely to be covered under 
  MNDA such that legally they couldn't tell you, anyway.

  -alan

  PS. and who are the big 5?

Thus spake Gordon Cook (cook at netaxs.com)
 on or about Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 08:51:18PM -0500:
> Does anyone here happen to know if PSI is privately interconnected to any
> of the big five yet?  I understand that you have to be pushing in the 30
> to 45 megabits per second continuosly into the backbone that you want the
> private connect with.  I am also told on no uncertain terms that IBM
> Global net and Verio have each one or more private connects open.
> And somewhat more tentatively that Digex is privately interconnected.