On Sat, Nov 08, 1997 at 06:58:56AM -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
There is no point agreeing with the Big Backbone Network Engineers that the MAEs suck. It is in their best interest that the MAEs suck, the CIX is crippled, you aren't bugging them to plug into a high perf exchange, and that you, the little ISP, go out of business soon. THEY have private interconnects which you can't join. Find a co-lo where you can cross-connect without being robbed or build your own NAP, just don't use DEC-designed Gigaswitches and FDDI. Use full duplex 100 Mbps Ethernet switch or find an old Fore switch cheap.
At the risk of litigation, Kent makes a good point here: how much of the problems we see are engineering based, and how much are (let's say it softly: political? This is right on the edge of topic for the list; construct your replies carefully, or cross-post to nodlist, per reply-to. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592