Re: T3 or not to T3

[bmanning () isi edu (Bill Manning)]

> private interconnects with the major providers similar to what Sprint/MCI
> are doing to keep traffic off the NAP's?
>
> On the other hand, maybe you could be the customer that establishes the
> distributed web server scenario I discussed earlier. If you have read
> through http://www.ix.digital.com you will not that not only are they
> running an exchange point but they are also running a web farm of sorts at
> the same location. Chances are good that this web-farm-at-the-XP concept
> will become the rule rather than the exception. Note that in Digital's
> model it would be possible to connect to larger ISP's without requiring
> traffic to flow through the XP itself.

        The differences between digitals exchange and MAE-LA seem to be 
        limited to these items:

                Digital is escorted
                MAE-LA is not (things are caged at MAELA)

                Digital has its generator installed
                MAE-LA will have its installed in Dec

                Digital has -48vdc ready
                MAE-LA has exausted its -48vdc capacity and is adding more

                Digital has its gigaswitch installed
                MAE-LA has not, since there is not yet a demand 

        In other ways, they are functionally identical.

                Both have multicarrier access
                Both support public and private interconnections
                Both support commercial access
                Both havee colocation services
                Both have UPS,preaction fire, cooling, the whole environmental pkg

        Oops. forgot these:

                Digital has a large marketing budget
                MAE-LA does not

                Digital is 20-25% more expensive
                MAE-LA is  based on cost recovery

        Note that MAE-LA, like MAE-West, is not an MFS only activity.
        They have thier own rates, the other players have theirs.
        http://www.isi.edu/div7/mla

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--bill
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