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To: rupert1 who wrote (55398)	4/1/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

What separates the NGI from the existing internet is a new type of node called a "gigapop" (short for "gigabit capacity point of presence"). A gigapop is a high-capacity, state-of-the-art interconnection point where advanced services traffic from various other NGI sites may be exchanged. It sounds like a traffic intersection to me. I'm trying to figure out how you make money on it. $100 a node sounds cheap. Appears two nodes would serve the world trade center. Interesting stuff, but not many details. NW

To: rupert1 who wrote (55398)	4/1/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Victor:OT The term, "node," is not as commonly used today as it was in the past when commercial internet providers were less common than they are now. Today, people use the expression "internet provider" or just "IP" much more frequently than the (almost) interchangeable term "node." From my understanding, the term "node" is mostly used today by technical support people or people, such as myself, whose accounts go back to the pre-internet, Bitnet days. Different categories of nodes [i.e. .com, .net, .gov, .org, .edu] travel on different parts of the internet. People with older, slow modems can tell a difference in connection time with another node in their category and one from a separate category due to the cross over. Lynn