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Article #988Re: BCnet and BCTel announce new OC3 backbone, improved US connectivity and joint NAP
From: Lawrence Lee
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:00
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Peter Van Epp (vanepp@sfu.ca) wrote: [...] : An IX or CIX stands for an Internet eXchange or Commericial Internet : eXchange and is usually a point where multiple IP networks peer to pass traffic : among themselves rather than having the traffic go to the NAP they are : connected to (in the US at this point) and then come back. [...] From your post it would lead me to say that it's more close to an IX than a NAP because Jack Leigh (BCNet President) in the Vancouver Sun article said that this would allow local traffic to stay in BC, rather than routing down to the US or out East...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,b3a74b3360fb812d X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 106393,b3a74b3360fb812d X-Google-Attributes: gid106393,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,b3a74b3360fb812d X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: lalee@vcn.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee) Subject: Re: BCnet and BCTel announce new OC3 backbone, improved US connectivity and joint NAP Date: 1996/12/06 Message-ID: <588a24$rd2@milo.vcn.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 202648224 references: <01bbdef3$cb08ee80$fd44678e@mhrybyk.isdn-pilot.ubc.ca> <01bbdf4d$08a92800$16f9aecc@direct.ca.direct.ca> <583equ$7re@vanbc.wimsey.com> <5861ep$m3e@milo.vcn.bc.ca> <586ts9$dl5@morgoth.sfu.ca> followup-to: bc.bcnet,bc.general,van.general organization: Vancouver CommunityNet newsgroups: bc.bcnet,bc.general,van.general