Interesting... We've seen the SprintNAP as a good place to send data to Sprintlink and MCI - and UUNET, when we were peering with them there. Avi
FYI Sprint is not allowing anything larger than 6Mb from Pensauken, circa April 4, 1997, for customer connections that is.
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David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm) dave@fast.net (610) 289-1100 http://www.fast.net FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions
-----Original Message----- From: Avi Freedman [SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 1997 5:03 AM To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Peering points
Or is the entire thing irrelevant, because everyone is moving to private bilateral connections. And the important thing is how many providers does someone peer, not how many exchange points they're connected to. For the price of one Sprint-NAP connection, I can get several connections to Canada. And we have a lot more customers in Canada than at the Sprint-NAP. We already peer with everyone at the Sprint-NAP, or been turned down by them elsewhere. So one more exchange point doesn't buy much. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
The SprintNAP is a much less congested place than MAE-East (though most providers also have less capacity out of it [besides Sprintlink, GSL, ICM, etc...])...
Avi