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To: Jon Tara who wrote (271)7/7/1997 9:42:00 PM
From: Thu Ra Tin   of 383
 
I am skeptical of the statement that "the bulk of AOL's traffic was on Sprint".

AOL owns ANS, which is itself a major backbone. All of the traceroutes that I've every run to AOL have gone over ANS, and haven't involved Sprint. Here is a current tracert from @Home in San Diego.

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I am also aware of ANS, but I wasn't sure whether ANS actually owns the fiber or they are leasing capacity from someone else.

The following is an exerpt of an interview with Sprint's CEO Esrey in September 16, 1996 of CommunicationsWeek. I don't believe he will be telling something that is not true.

"CommWeek: What will Sprint offer in the Internet/intranet arena?

Esrey: Sprint is the leader in the Internet/Intranet area because our network carries 40% of domestic Internet and 60% of the international Internet backbone traffic. We provide the bulk of America Online's and several Internet access provider's communications services. We carry one trillion bytes of info a month over the Internet. . . . Also, if everybody decided to use only Sprint, we could handle all that long distance traffic over just a portion of our network in a few years because of the changes we're making in capacity."

You can actually read the article on
techweb.com
Just use the search function from it.

Also Network Computing August 1996 issue stated, "Sprint operates Sprintlink, a large Cisco router-based IP network used heavily by OTHER ISPs for routing internet traffic."
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