concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

Sat Jul 3 06:44:16 UTC 2004

RAS> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:07:06 -0400
RAS> From: Richard A Steenbergen

RAS> What is with people in this industry, who latch onto an idea
RAS> and won't let go? If someone was talking about 80286 based
RAS> machines in 2004 we would all be in utter disbelief, but you
RAS> can still routinely find people talking about "the MAEs" and
RAS> "congested NAPs".

Can I get a class C with that?

[ snip ]

RAS> Given how poorly some folks do this, and how quickly a
RAS> congested port can degrate the reputation of an exchange
RAS> point, it seems like this would at least be a very basic
RAS> safety net (doesn't help if they only have 1 OC12 of
RAS> backhaul off of that GigE port, but still better than
RAS> nothing).

To think some of us thought exchanges would save providers from
tyrannical ILEC loops. ;-)

Eddy
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