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?
One more thing, that reason we and a lot for others don't go with the last logical choice (why not they will not peer until end of summer) is that they will only sign a 1 year contract. They will also not peer with customers, so getting a connection into Sprint to get Sprint routes is a bad idea. You move from not being able to peer for a few months to not being able to peer for a year. 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