RE: Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP

[Todd Graham Lewis <lists () reflections mindspring com>]

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Chris A. Icide wrote:

> Now that I've thrown in my share of late night sarcasm,  It would interest
> me greatly to understand exactly why you came to the following
> conclusions:
(...)
> 4.    A city the size of Atlanta needs more than 1 Exchange Point

Well, considering that the only options for the entire southeast consist 
of A) Dallas, and B) DC, I'd say that you have a large amount of traffic 
which has to be long-hauled at significant expense to the nearest 
exchange point.

Ever since rural electrification was finished, we southerners tend to 
enjoy our electronics like everyone else, and while the northeast and 
California are virtually drowning in access points, and while the 
mid-west has Chicago, we've got squat.

Consider if you will how much traffic comes out of places like Florida 
and Research Triangle Park and the number of relatively large cities 
throughout the southeast (Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Nashville, 
Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Charlotte, etc.) which are proximate to no access 
point.

For all of these places, Atlanta is the logical and really only major 
communications hub.  Virtually all of the major backbones centralize 
their southeastern operations out of here, and it is the major hub for 
telephoony as well.

I'd say that Atlanta is a prime battleground, and that the southeast is
the last major area of the US without a serious exchange point, which is
why I predict that there will be three competing NAPs in Atlanta within
the next six months.  Of course, only one will win.

Now, if I could get one of them in my apartment...

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