Jamie Curtis

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since January 21, 1998

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October 22, 1998, on The above.net co-location service:
Having an OC3 to any of the MAEs or NAPs is a lot like having a 45 lane superhighway to your local mall parking lot a christmas.
A good host will have multiple connections from the primary backbone providers (MCI/C&W - UUNet - Sprint) and use MAE/NAP connections for that occasional rogue packet to a second or third tier provider.
All of the primary backbone providers now pull direct access to/from each other to avoid the bottlenecks of the MAEs/NAPs that were causing a majority of thier routing problems.