At 04:24 PM 9/15/98 -0700, Tim Wolfe wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Joe McDonald wrote:
Looks like they settled their peering argument?:
GTE Internetworking has joined with Exodus Communications, Inc. to speed up their customers' access to the Internet. [....] http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9809152gte
Hmm.. not to start another massive thread here, but I wonder if this means that Exodus is now paying for transit and/or peering?
Its actually a cute little press release. It basically says... "We did something." without saying what that something is. Apparently Vapor is an acceptable product these days. Justin W. Newton Got Clue? ISPF 98 http://www.ispf.org
Actually, after reading it, I found it somewhat deragatory on the part of GTE. Note that it insinuates that GTE has helped Exodus increase the speed on thier Network. If you read it without really knowing how this all works, you might think that GTE is performing charity work. I'd put this release in the same category as all the junnk flowing out of the beltway in regards to Clinton's fiasco. It's ugly for a company like GTEI to feel that they have to resort to such posturing. -Chris At 04:32 PM 9/15/98 -0700, Justin W. Newton wrote:
Its actually a cute little press release. It basically says... "We did something." without saying what that something is. Apparently Vapor is an acceptable product these days.
Justin W. Newton Got Clue? ISPF 98 http://www.ispf.org
At 11:23 AM 09/16/1998 -0400, Chris A. Icide wrote:
Actually, after reading it, I found it somewhat deragatory on the part of GTE. Note that it insinuates that GTE has helped Exodus increase the speed on thier Network. If you read it without really knowing how this all works, you might think that GTE is performing charity work.
While GTE does bunches of charity work (GTE Foundation?), it's generally for worthy non-profit causes... Avoiding charity work was what led us to the discussion of wildly asymmetric peers in a shortest-exit world... :-) /John
At 04:32 PM 09/15/1998 -0700, Justin W. Newton wrote:
Its actually a cute little press release. It basically says... "We did something." without saying what that something is. Apparently Vapor is an acceptable product these days.
I'll admit that it's a little sparse on details, but that's due to the NDA of the agreement. The main point of the release is to let folks know that there will be continued connectivity, including additional interconnects. I wouldn't categorize that as "vapor", but that's my own perspective. /John
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