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is there a market for this?
by Perry E. Metzger 25 Jul '97

25 Jul '97

I have a friend who's in the high speed optoelectronics biz and already does lots of OC-[N] equipment, and I mentioned to him that I thought that there was probably a market for PCI cards that spoke IP over OC-3/OC-12. Before I strongly encourage him to do this, I was curious as to whether anyone else felt there was a real market for such things. Perry

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Re: Terminating many T1's
by smd＠clock.org 25 Jul '97

25 Jul '97

Hm, Neil, isn't the fact that we are in total agreement again one of the Signs of the Apocalypse? :-) "Neil J. McRae" <neil(a)domino.org> writes: > The solution to this is for someone to make a > Channelised SONET/SDH interface. Designers should look at the Cisco (sorry, Neil) CT-3 card: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/733/CT3IP/ct3_ds.htm which takes in an electrical PDH 45Mbps DS3 circuit and pulls out 28 DS1s. This is a beautiful card for anyone aggregating lots of DS1s together, and I'm pleased Cisco built it. (Consider that two CT3s get rid of most of the equipment seen in this picture: http://www.stupi.se/Bilder/3266-2012-0599/jpg1/img0011.jpg) Unfortunately it's all on the U.S. PDH standard, but hey, what can you do? --:) Like you, I would like to see one deal with SDH/SONET, and be able to pull out European PDH formats as well as U.S. PDH formats. I believe there is a market for such a card that consists of more than just you and me, although big traditional telcos will still like the CT3 for a while to come (testing and procedures reasons mostly). For the moment, however, if you have a telco supplying you with U.S.-style PDH circuits over SONET, you can pull a DS3 trib out of an OC3, and drop that onto the CT3 card, and handle 28 DS1s that way. Eliminating the need for the DS3 tributary card at the MUX and pulling an optical connection into a router would be a Good Thing as a next step, and I think that Cisco understands this. I dunno what your vendors are up to, but hey, if they want to build such an interface, then that's way cool too. The end goals, just to amplify your comments, are: -- one pair of fibres from MUX to router -- many many many lines of various bandwidths encapsulated in that pair of fibres -- de/aggregation of things like STM-1/OC3 or faster bundles of PDH and SDH circuits to be done by the telco side -- SDH/SONET is cool, and worth paying for -- SDH/SONET is cheaper facilities-wise for telcos to provide Ultimately I would like to be able to divide telcos into two varieties: those that offer fast concatenated point-to-point bandwidth (STM-1c to STM-16c, for customer and inter-POP connections, for example), who will never need to worry about PDH equipment ever; and those who will aggregate large numbers of PDH circuits into SDH/SONET in the standard way (to talk to lower-speed customers). [*] This meshes nicely with the idea of evolving three principal types of IP routers: ones that handle a number of very fast POS ports (STM-16c is nice), ones that handle one or two very fast POS ports and have massive de/aggregation facilities, much like the Cisco CT3, only at larger scale, and ones that are "special case" boxes which trade off interface steroids for packet-per-second processing time and general computational steroids (right now these are generally what I would call "edge" boxes, for use principally in talking with peers and/or customers at exchange points where rate limiting and other policy issues; in the future they could be huge NAT boxes, or only heaven knows what :) ). > SDH and SONET are multiplexing technolodgies and I wish the router > manufacturers would wake up and grab this idea. Agreed! Talk to your vendors, I'll talk to mine. :-) Sean. Footnote: [*] For the sceptical, there are already alternative suppliers of high-speed concatenated SDH in Europe. The traditional PNOs so far Just Don't Get It, and will probably not take advantage of the potential revenue stream for a while yet (big hint: if you're a potential supplier of high-speed concatenated SDH and aren't seriously thinking of pricing a few percentage points off a linear extension of PTT tariffs, talk to me :) ). The traditional PNOs are also no longer the only options for offering up a bunch of PDH circuits concatenated into SDH/SONET, either, so they face competition on that front too.

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DNS
by Bill Unsworth 25 Jul '97

25 Jul '97

I am not a techie :-)) but it seems to me that the real power re DNS lies not with adhoc committees but with the ISPs. If we collectively choose to point our DNS at other than Internic then new domains will exist without ad-hoc committees, government interference etc. Obviously there is concern about some of the current attempts to provide DNS not being really answerable to the ISP community and hence their lack of success. What do you think? Action by NANOG members to get out of the current poor situation rather than leaving it to fate? Bill U-NET Limited - Global Transit Division mailto:world@u-net.net http://world.u-net.net Tel 44 1925 484444 Fax 44 1925 484466

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re: nanog mailing list
by Jason Storm 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

My apologies to the wide variety of people aparently offended by my request for subscription, and many thanks to the people who pointed me towards the proper subscription channels. I recall being told this list was private and required references, my mistake. Jason Storm

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Judge Deferes AlterNIC Action
by Randall S. Benn 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

Appologies in advance for the politics, but I thought many would be interested. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/5414.html Regards, Randy

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Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
by John J. Buxbaum 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

Mark, You have been told by the State who you have to use as a provider? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Bixby <markb(a)spock.dis.cccd.edu> To: netops <netops(a)flycast.com> Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Subject: Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing? >netops writes: >> >> Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to >> multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running >> mission-critical applications on the Internet? > >We will be going multi-homed in about 2 weeks because the state of California >has mandated that all community colleges sign up with 4C.net, but we don't >want to give up our existing CERF.net connection. >-- >Mark Bixby E-mail: markb(a)cccd.edu >Coast Community College Dist. Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/ >District Information Services 1370 Adams Ave, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429 >Technical Support +1 714 438-4647 >"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M) >

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Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
by John J. Buxbaum 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

Bruce, I have several customer who are multi-homed, some of which are ISP"s but not all. I am seeing this a coming trend for customers who wish to have redundant internet access. A bit pricey i bet, but maybe easier on the nerves :) John Buxbaum AT&T CBB -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Benda <bruce(a)clari.net> To: netops <netops(a)flycast.com> Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Subject: Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing? >> Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to >> multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running >> mission-critical applications on the Internet? >> >> So far, I only know of a couple, with PointCast being one of them. > >We're multi-homed to BBN, Exodus (co-located too), and PBI. >

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Notification of LINX maintenance
by Paul Thornton 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

Apologies for being slightly off topic, and I know it isn't in North America :-) The London Internet Exchange (LINX), the primary UK interconnect point, is being physically relocated this weekend, from Saturday 26 June 23:00 GMT to Sunday 27 June 05:00 GMT. There should not be any major impact, but paths to K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET may change as various peering sessions go down and come back up. This is just a 'heads up' posting so you are aware that it is happening. Some of the routing between UK ISPs may be affected, although a lot of effort has been put into ensuring that there is minimal impact to any external networks. For more information, see http://www.linx.net/moveinfo.html (this is aimed at the customers of our members, but does give an overview of what is happening) Paul -- Paul Thornton, Network Engineer, London Internet Exchange Ltd. Tel: 07000 783797 Mobile: +44 467 372205

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Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing?
by jrg＠blodwen.demon.co.uk 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

netops(a)flycast.com (netops) writes: > Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to > multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running > mission-critical applications on the Internet? Yes. I know some people in the UK that are multi-homed, too (though there's probably not too many over here.) James.

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NANOG mailing list
by Jason Storm 24 Jul '97

24 Jul '97

Hi! Im currently employed as technical support for hooked.net/well.com, and I am in training for systems admin. I am hoping to be included in the NANOG mailing list, as it often seems to address issues that affect the performance of these ISP's long before I am able to get the scoop, basically. For myself and for the 15,000 customers I offer my services to, please tell me what information is needed to gain access to this list. I have several references available on request. Hope to hear from you soon, Jason Storm Tech Support Hooked.net/Well.com staffjs(a)hooked.net, jms(a)well.com

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