Re: Interconnecting at MAE-West

[Gordon Cook <cook () netaxs com>]

Robert bowman wrote:  Or at least look into spending a bunch of additional
money buying transit
services from AGIS or CRL.  They both are in the business of servicing
ISPs at the IXP level.

Why would you buy transit from either AGIS or CRL if you could also buy it
from MCI, ANS, Sprint or UUNET?  Are you saying that if one of these big
players has a moretorium on peering, it also does not do transit?

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