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Re: the Internet Backbone
- From: Avi Freedman
- Date: Sat Apr 06 08:38:30 1996
> From: Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 1996 1:15 AM
> To: Michael Dillon
> Cc: pferguso@cisco.com; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: the Internet Backbone
>
> > 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}.
>
> And NSPISP, NXIX, STIX, HKIX, D-GIX, F-GIX, CIXP, LINX, etc. etc. etc.
No, the point is that {MCI, Sprint, ANS, UUNET, PSI, AGIS} would fail the
test if you include all of the other, smaller, public exchange points.
> Barry
Avi
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