I wrote:
From a research university perspective, the AADS NAP is a cool thing. It lets me do peering & various types of transit on a single circuit, & the availability of the route servers is nice. The full mesh of PVCs removes most of the layer 1-2 pain involved with firing up new interactions. The circuit to get there isn't cheap, but it seems worth it based on my experience.
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
Do you have any expectations with regards to service provided between various peers and the fact that some peers may (depending on your ATM QoS) step onto other peering partners?
The short answer is "no". ;^) The longer answer is that I'm aware of the potential chaos & nondeterminism associated with a multi-user contention-based UBR service such as that offered by the AADS NAP. It's certainly an issue, but it doesn't disqualify it from being a useful piece of a connectivity puzzle provided that one utilizes it with eyes open about its characteristics. ________________________________________________________________________ Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 email: jay-ford@uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-5505