At 03:02 AM 10/27/96 MET, Peter Lothberg wrote:
So what's the problem? Basically, one organisation, Ebone, which operates a fairly large pan-European net, won't peer with others. This means that European customers connected to non-Ebone connected providers like Global One lack European connectivity without going through the US. Ebone provides great connectivity at cost, but the big US NSPs making presences in Europe naturally don't want to buy bandwidth from someone like Ebone. We'll see what happens.
Ebone is not the only way to get European connectivity without going to the US. There are many exchange points in Europe providing local traffic exchange. Global-One participates in some of these with more in the works. Ebone is a good last resort (not to be read as default) path to obscure destinations or to networks that will not peer with commercial networks.
I don't think this is correct. Ebone peers with other pan-european networks of comparable size, IBM, BT and EUnet comes to my mind.
G1 is a customer of Ebone and connects in Paris.
Correct. Also Stockholm. Regards, Andy - speaking as a former Global-One employee