[ ANS has had both NSFNET and non-NSFNET customers on ENSSs. There are
still lots of non-NSFNET customers which ANS has on ENSSs in addition to
the CNSSs. ]
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:20:25 CDT
> From: sob@academ.com (Stan Barber)
> To: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
> CC: avg@sprint.net, karl@mcs.com, nanog@merit.edu, rps@isi.edu, salo@msc
.edu
> Okey. I am just looking for clarification. Vadim's statement seemed to eith
er
> indicate that ANS was not a "large service provider" or that NSSes were no
> longer part of ANS's backbone.
>
> I am certainly in no position to know how to classify "large service provid
er"
> unless we look at the NSF NSP definition as a metric. If there is another
> objective definition, I'd be happy to hear about it.
>
> As for the NSSes no longer being in the ANS backbone, it is clear that ANS
> is using some Cisco products, but it is also clear there are still some CNS
Ses
> that Cisco didn't build.
>
>
>
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