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Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
From: Paul Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 23:24:21 +0000
I suppose the discussion is what do you want from your exchange pt operator and what do you NOT want.
At the IXP level, "bits per month" always trumps "bits per second", and usually trumps "pennies per bit" as well. There are now a number of companies trying to sell wide area ethernet -- even some transoceanic but most just intracontinental. It doesn't work well for peering, though, just like SMDS and NetEdge didn't work well for peering. Too many moving parts and too little transparency.
Many people would not feel comfortable that circuit operators have visibility and maintain stats on even NUMBER of packets passed....
That's one of several important reasons why neutrality matters.
Current thread:
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?, (continued)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Paul Vixie (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mike Hughes (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? cowie (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Petri Helenius (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Jared Mauch (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Vadim Antonov (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? David Diaz (Aug 11)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Paul Vixie (Aug 11)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Stephen Sprunk (Aug 12)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Richard A Steenbergen (Aug 10)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Stephen Sprunk (Aug 12)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 15)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 15)