New NAP Opening in Miami this week

Thu Jun 28 20:53:50 UTC 2001

My mistake, the RA is hot as or today at the Mix.  I was just 
corrected off list.

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Actually Bellsouth is hot.  I have been to the sites.  The fibre is 
and hot.  Im sure there are things like the RA that may not be hot 
yet if that is what is being referred to.  It's a good network with 
fibre from different carries on diverse routes.  The interesting 
prospect I think is that since they have nodes in locations like W. 
Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale (not just miami) your local loop from 
these areas would be significantly cheaper than running to that other 
NAP in Miami.  This may be attractive for carriers or backbones in 
that area.  The Mix nodes are also located at locations like 
transoceanic fibre nodes.  Since it's a layer 1 network also, geeez 
maybe it's good for cheap transport.

I think the NOTA building that was built was built well.  32ft is not 
bad for florida at all.  It seems like a fine colo with one concern, 
it's in an evacation area.  Which means u need to have key people 
there before the storm restrictions kick in or they arent getting 
there.  As we know, no one gets rich building a nap, this is model 
plans on making money from colo space which is also tough right now. 
The other model is a, hey we dont care where u are at, use us for 
peering and hmmm we can do wave service and local loops and whatever 
else you can come up with for a dwdm/optical switched core network.

It is going to be interesting to see how both naps evolve and develop 
differentiating services.

One negative with the mix-nap is that they used blue and orange 
colors, Univ of Florida, for their tshirts. What an insult :-)

dave

At 4:10 PM -0400 6/28/01, Daniel Golding wrote:
>AFAIK, the Bellsouth MIX is a long way from operation.
>
>- Daniel Golding
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
>>  Mark Borchers
>>  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:45 PM
>>  To: nanog at merit.edu
>>  Subject: RE: New NAP Opening in Miami this week
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>>
>>  Two, actually.  Refer to http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0102/florida.html
>>  <http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0102/florida.html>
>> 
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Larry Diffey [mailto:ldiffey at technologyforward.com]
>>  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:41 PM
>>  To: nanog at merit.edu
>>  Subject: New NAP Opening in Miami this week
>>
>>
>>  According to this story
>>  <http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2779717,00.html>  on
>>  zdnet, there is a large NAP opening this week in Miami.  This NAP will
>>  primarily be used to pipe traffic to and from Latin and South America.
>  >
>  > The facility is a whopping 32 feet above sea level!
>  >