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Re: the Internet Backbone
- From: Avi Freedman
- Date: Fri Apr 05 17:17:30 1996
> On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
> > Better yet, call it the 'default-free core', which is ironically what it
> > is already called. :-)
>
> OK, how about this...
>
> The core of the US Internet, also known as the default-free core, 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.
>
> So, to determine whether a carrier is part of the core:
>
> Are they an NSP?
> Do they operate their own national backbone?
> Can they provide national transit over their own network infrastructure?
> Do they interconnect with other NSP's who satisfy the previous two
> conditions at most of the public exchange points?
Where public exchange points == {MAE-East, MAE-West, Pennsauken, PacBell NAP,
Chicago NAP, and arguably the CIX router/cloud}.
> Is this better?
>
> Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
> Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
Avi
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