The questions stand
Brian Horvitz
horvitz at shore.net
Wed May 20 21:17:17 UTC 1998
> If they could be happy selling OC3 and 12's to local exchanges, and let
> _them_ sell the damned connectivity at "ISP retail", all the local
> traffic would stay _local_, and I strongly suspect that the rest of the
> big exchanges might start _working_.
>
That means I'm buying second tier bandwidth from a local exchange... or in
essence just another ISP who sells only to other ISPs. The upstream
portion doesn't seem to matter unless all the local ISPs use that exchange
exclusively.
Brian
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