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> . are all three (four?) NAPs really being used

  Yes. for some value of "used".

The NewYorsey Nap is being "used". I see approx. 3E4 packets
per sec. peak (averaged over a 5 min. period). This is through
our gigaswitch. Intra-FDDI is additional.

> . Do all the NAPs provide online statistics?

  No.

Whoa there, Nellie. Sprint NAP stats are available
from NLANR -- National Laboratory for Applied Network Research. 30 days worth on-line,
but available since inception (about March-April '95).
Ask and you shall receive.

MFS also is available, I believe. I don't know about the
others.

      -- Bilal

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Hi Bilal!

Whoa there, Nellie. Sprint NAP stats are available
from NLANR -- National Laboratory for Applied Network Research. 30 days worth on-line,
but available since inception (about March-April '95).
Ask and you shall receive.

This is *really* cool. Dun Liu and I are about to put our RA seen NAP
stats up on the web. We found it quite useful to be able to compare our
customer-seen NAP performance statistics along side of the MFS NAP-Provider
seen performance statistics.

For example, there appears to be a strong (perhaps expected) correlation
between the MAE-East media load and the latency we see bwetween the RS and
its peers. And interestingly enough, we see a point of media utilization
after which packet loss increases dramatically.

I think that the NANOG community would also benefit from having this data
available on the web so such correlations could be made. To approach
the completeness of data that was available in the NSFNET days I think
we should encourage all NAP participants to post their NAP-related data to
the web as well.

We have MAE-East and Sprint NAP-provider data, and soon we'll have the RA as a
NAP customer providing data as well. What are the chances of other NAP
attachees putting up NAP-related data on the web in the same fashion?

Bill