Judith: Intrene was a signed contract, but when it comes to ISP's, thats a different story. Can yuu imagine my looking at this chart nebo.cs.byu.edu **of course this is ATM test beds, but the connections would similiar** the difficulty in linking up ISP's outside the F-Network.
Ok, Franklin Internet has its 250-300 pops set up. There are also (example), 15 other ISP's that want to rule a segment of the US. These ISP's donot want to connect to the FNet, so Frank strikes up an agreement/partnership that this particular ISP can control this segment. Franklin then gets a call from another ISP just outside that area of the last, but somehow it connects in small segments. So Franklin goes back to the first and says: " Well we agree to have your segment, but you must understand that xyz company will use your area, just outside a bit, but it does cross paths for a few miles. Is that all right?
At this particular time, there could be so many calls, so many POP's that interconnect to each other, that maybe....just maybe Franklin is setting up something completely different besides the Franklin Network so that everyone is happy about their turf.
How long could that take to come up with a suficient plan? You guess!
Peering in the Telephony Business is going to be alot different then peering with Internet use among the Tall and Medium Timbers.
Reason with this: While the NAP's provide a place to interconnect, anyone at the NAP can choose to interconnect withanyone else there, or for that matter, decline to. Today, you can rather easily get a connection to the NAP, but it is quite an "old boys club" as to who will peer with whom. The issue at the heart of 'peering' is the concept that in peering with you, avendor is basically agreeing to allow your traffic to transmit their backbone to get across the country. This paragraph sums up the Internet as a whole with access, now how is Telephony going to play a similiar role? ggg
verycomplicatedTemp'
Frank may have had 15 or 20 contracts ready, but who's to say that a deal is complete until the final chapters are written in a "controlled enviroment like this".
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