On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
Robert bowman wrote: Or at least look into spending a bunch of additional money buying transit services from AGIS or CRL. They both are in the business of servicing ISPs at the IXP level.
Why would you buy transit from either AGIS or CRL if you could also buy it from MCI, ANS, Sprint or UUNET? Are you saying that if one of these big players has a moretorium on peering, it also does not do transit?
Well, you may not want to get it form MCI, ANS, or UUNET because they would peer with you, but will not peer with customers. This is where we are at right now, we are building a full clear channel DS3 network, and have a T1 right now into MCI for people we don't peer with. MCI is now ready to peer, but will not until we ditch the T1 we have. We don't want to go with UUNET or ANS because that would kill peering with them. So our only choice is a smaller NSP that has Sprint peering but not a lot of net traffic so it would not kill us not to peer, or Sprint. P.S. I am looking for a copy of Sprints peering contract, if you have it and want to share that would be great. So far I have had problems getting it form Sprint. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34