🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:36:08 GMT, bob@mindspring.com (Bob McNamara)
wrote:

>This has nothing to do with competitors, or who has the biggest
>'anything'. It was simply my comment to your claim of connection, at
>one hop, to any peering point on the net. Something I don't believe
>anyone anywhere can claim. 
Ah, ok. 

>With the Internet comprised of multiple backbones through multiple
>carriers it would require a proprietary network of your own,
>interconnecting directly to every NAP, the FIX, and the CIX, via
>single hops from each point to each other point, to accomplish your
>statement. Since I didn't see that I simply called that particular
>claim into question. Any network configured that way would also seem
>to have a large potential for failure, without redundant routes, but
>that's a different discussion.
We do have a proprietary network. Its running on a ATM based system
that is also on a mesh network with over 40 pops nation wide. We do in
fact connect directly to over 7 peering points. That is the reason why
I say it is one hop to the internet. The peering points are that
actual backbone of the internet. Peering points are nothing more than
exchanging points. All I can say is that this particular network is
very reliable and down right fast. Naturally once you get handed off
by a peering point it doesn't matter how fast your network is. 

>Purely a technical comment, no other intent should be read in to it. 
I must appologize on my part. I've been battling with MCI these few
days. They are trying to charge me for 3 months of voice T1 service,
but considering how I have only had them for 2 months, and to top it
off they told me that I can have a PRI put in as well, and they don't
even have it until June, I get a bit irritated <sp?>.