22 Jul
1996
22 Jul
'96
2:15 a.m.
On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
On 21 Jul 1996, Dean Gaudet wrote:
of this into account, I'm really leaning towards a solution that involves lots of small pipes to lots of providers. Essentially eliminating the need for 90% of our packets to traverse NAPs by using each backbone mostly for their own customers.
Are you sure you can't accomplish this with your own national backbone and private interconnects with the major providers similar to what Sprint/MCI are doing to keep traffic off the NAP's?
I believe the current ante to get into this game is DS3 infrastructure with presence at 3 exchange points. This is a slightly different order of magnitude than what's Dean seems to be talking about. -dorian