On Jan 26, 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
Yes, and the current peering requirements are enough to keep most small ISPs from growing. I am spending 10s of thousands a month over what I need to spend just because people want to see full DS3 network. I can understand people would want me to be at all NAPs, but why should I need 10X the bandwidth I need for my customers?
Well, my guess would be that if you don't have a DS3 backbone, why would the big guys want to peer with you anyway? If you don't need that much bandwidth (or don't have it) odds are you don't have enough customers for the big guys to want to peer with you. The DS3 backbone requirement is just a nicer way of saying that (and it is a quantifiable level). Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - ahp@hilander.com | Erols Internet Services, INC. | |Network Engineer | Springfield, VA. | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+