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Re: the Internet Backbone
From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:02:02 -0800 (PST)
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. Make sense? Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael () memra com
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