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In article <335E11A3.6AB8@duke.edu>, Jimmy Grewal <jkg4@duke.edu> wrote:

> 
> Up until this year, Duke's service provider was MCI.  They offered a far
> better service, one which proved to be less attractive (more $) than
> Sprint's.  It seems the decision to switch to Sprint was made without
> careful consideration of the major differences in quality between the
> two providers.

No, "MCNC"'s service provider was MCI.  The switch had more to do
with a **SERIOUS** increase in price than anything.

There's a little more info about that at:
http://www.oit.duke.edu/itac/minutes/031397.html

bbnplanet is anther major provider, but the general consensus
is that they're worse than sprintlink.  MCI has a great number
of interconnect points (i.e. don't go through MAE-EAST to get
to the other major providers), whereas BBNPlanet and
other providers (even SprintLink to a point) have a significantly
lesser amount.

The problems that INFURIATE me though, are the ones like
the one posted by Dr. Norstad that for the folks at NCSU,
I'll briefly mention.

try getting a packet to one of the two www.info.apple.com
servers:
Name:    www.info.apple.com
Addresses:  204.96.16.10, 206.160.172.3

Both are pingable/etc. from my internet provider back in
Chicago, while for DAYS now, the 206.* address has
been unreachable via sprintlink.  Their routing table must
be so messed up, I don't even want to think about it.

Fact:  Sprintlink is not meeting the RTP Universities' needs.
Question: what can be economically done to meet those needs?
The issue is as much monetary as it is based on quality.

--jay

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