Its good in theory, But last time i looked into them, they still didnt have very good connectivity to exodus and above etc. so, your traffic ends up traversing their good cw and uunet links and the like, so to get to places like exodus and above you are still crossing the PX's - Via other carriers, not internap :) But, i would have to say they would be one of my first options if i was looking to develop a facility with only 1 single-homed link. -dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Johnson" <mike.johnson@isunnetworks.com> To: "Tom Schmidt" <tsch52@hotmail.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 6:52 PM Subject: Re: InterNAP?
Tom Schmidt [tsch52@hotmail.com] wrote:
InterNap has some technology to avoid congested peering points. Does
this
technology actually work? Isn't it impossible to avoid these peering points? What are your experiences with InterNAP?
I'm not a customer, but I spoke with a salesdriod there. All they do is go in, set up their own geographicly disperse private peering points and link them together with their private backbone. They set these things up by buying service from the other large backbone folk. The idea being that, in general, if they can get their traffic onto the same backbone that the end user is connected to, then it's avoided the public peering points. It's a good theory. Dunno if it works.
Mike -- Mike Johnson Network Engineer / iSun Networks, Inc. Morrisville, NC All opinions are mine, not those of my employer