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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2391)	10/7/1999 8:36:00 AM
From: Patsy Collins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15615

Frank, Do you think now is a good time to initiate a long posn in GBLX, below 30, that is.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2391)	10/7/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: AurumRabosa	Respond to of 15615

WRT "off ramps," my naive thought was you don't need too many regardless. If I was sending a message from Los Angeles to San Diego and instead of getting a straight shot down I-5 I had to send my photons to New York City and reflect back to SD that would only add about 30 ms (0.03 seconds) to the transmission. And, there's plenty of hubs along the way to get rerouted back to SD, e.g. Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco, Dallas, etc... It was nice to read YHOO's earnings release and see that they're profits are growing and they're serving 2 million pages a minute! Too bad they forgot to mention that those zillions of pages are being served up from GBLX's server farms.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (2391)	10/7/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: pann1128	Respond to of 15615

Frank, Yes I agree about everyone's motives, but some people are extremely generous with their time on these forums. Which means they sometimes have a bandwidth problem <g>. Anyway, let me see if I can unmiddle what I said earlier. I guess all these network operators have private peering arrangements with each other. The ABOV gentlemen said that to connect to each other, they have to go through a NAP (Network Access Point). These NAP's are a big bottlenec. So, they have some 300+ peering arrangements, out of which 93 do not go through the NAP, but have some dedicated or private connection. So they avoid the bottlenecks. Does this make more sense? About your bandwidth and dropping packets, I completely understand <g>. If and when you get a chance to repond, please do. Apart from trying to make profits, the fun is in learning about these new areas. Cheers, Piyush