Kent W. England writes...
Folks;
An official news item of interest;
Network World
WorldCom reveals upgrade plans for MAEs
By Denise Pappalardo
Network World Fusion
1/28/98
WorldCom, Inc. officially revealed its plans to build its first
Metropolitan Area Exchange (MAE) based solely on ATM at ComNet '98.
MAE-Central, WorldCom�s new Tier 1 MAE, today is under construction in
Dallas. MAE-Central will be equipped with three Cisco Systems, Inc.
StrataCom BPX ATM switches by the end of February with services expected to
be available by the end of the quarter, said Dan Lasater, vice president of
broadband applications at WorldCom.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0128mae.html
How about your password to access this? Or were you quoting the entire
article? Where will this MAE-Central be located?
Sorry, but I can't find a Worldcom press release anywhere. I don't feel
right cutting and pasting the entire article, but the location is slated to
be Dallas.
(BTW, isn't it scandalous that MFS would copy the PacBell NAP and build a
MAE using S'com BPX switches? I went back and checked the nanog archives
and compiled a list of all the ISPs that swore they would never connect to
an ATM NAP. How many are planning to disconnect from the MAEs when the ATM
switches come up?)
--Kent
<http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0128mae.html>http://www.nwfusion.com/news/0128
mae.html
How about your password to access this?� Or were you quoting the entire
article?� Where will this MAE-Central be located?
From:
<http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10024.html>http://www.wired
.com/news/news/technology/story/10024.html
"Laughlin said that WorldCom is building a new, ATM-only MAE in Dallas,
MAE-Central, which will also be one of the major MAEs. Service should be
available some time later this year."
Yes and no. Sure a lot of people that said they would not connect to a ATM
NAP, but things do change. The current FDDI NAPs are just not able to
support the current load and their is no good way to expand them. ATM has
changed a lot in the last 4 years. ATM switched have come a long way, sure
they are still not where I would like to see them, but they are getting
there. I don't think it matters anyone, the whole public NAP idea (I
think was a good idea) is dead.
"Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net> writes:
(BTW, isn't it scandalous that MFS would copy the PacBell NAP and build a
MAE using S'com BPX switches?
No, just tragically stupid.
Sean.
Why is it tragically stupid? We have had consistantly better performance
from our PB NAP connection then Mae-West.
Sean M. Doran wrote:
I agree it is tragically stupid, but only because of the switch they are
using.
What else is there, Cascade (Ascend) 500 series? The last time I looked
AT&T GCNS 2000... already proven.
Ryan Brooks
ryan@inc.net
Mark Tripod wrote:
I think you meant to say proven to be marginal for exchange point architure.
-dorian