At 3:02 PM 4/5/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
Bill sez: A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the NAP/MAEs in the US. Not just two. All of them.
Why not just start calling it the Internet "core". The core of the US Internet no longer follows a backbone topology. The core is composed of the major NSP's who operate national backbones providing national transit and who interconnect at all or most of the public exchange points.
Sounds like a fine definition... (although adding the qualification of "functional" to "public exchange points" might be worthwhile...) /John
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, John Curran wrote:
At 3:02 PM 4/5/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
Bill sez: A US Internet "backbone" is one which connects to ALL the NAP/MAEs in the US. Not just two. All of them.
Why not just start calling it the Internet "core". The core of the US Internet no longer follows a backbone topology. The core is composed of the major NSP's who operate national backbones providing national transit and who interconnect at all or most of the public exchange points.
Sounds like a fine definition... (although adding the qualification of "functional" to "public exchange points" might be worthwhile...)
Does the backbone only exist in the US then? Or have previous posters been referring to NAP's and MAE's worldwide? I think our US -centrism is showing here guys:) --- David Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's *amazing* what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do!
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