At 06:33 AM 10/6/98 -0400, Brian Horvitz wrote:

Just curious to know who's exchanging traffic at MAE NY? If I am to believe what I see at www.mae.net, there's only two networks connected there, which would make it a pretty ineffective exchange point.

there are two that i'm aware of in MAE-NY that are connected to the FDDI concentrator, Digex/Intermedia and INet Solutions (the latter being my former employer.) so far as i know, they are not actually exchanging any traffic, though, the peering agreement between the two never having been executed. BBN/GTE have quite a few cabinets, but are not hooked up to the FDDI, and there is an ANS cabinet that i never saw turned on (but this may have changed.) rental for a rack is currently on the order of $650/month, but Worldcom/MFS wants to see about $7K/month of income associated with a rack. the exchange connection is $2000-$4000 a month, depending on whether you get a FDDI hookup or a DS3 hookup. MFS income credited towards the cabinet could also come from other circuits leased from MFS and terminated in the cabinet. this info is all from my having installed a POP there last winter for INet, and from more recent inquiries relating to my current job. we've since chosen to travel a different path... richard -- Richard Welty NeWorks Networking, Inc. 518-244-9675 rwelty@neworks.net http://www.neworks.net/