Re: Links on the blink - reprise

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 05:45 PM 11/17/95 -0700, Dave Siegel wrote:

> > One of the reasons why end users find frame-relay undesireable is
> > that they cannot be assured that their provider is not grossly
> > oversubscribed on PVC-per-port density. When you buy a T1 private
> > line, you can be assured that you're not sharing it with 120 other
> > end-users.  :-)
>
> Nor can you know that with a Dedicated line, that the other side doesn't feed
> into a 2501 into a collision-ridden Boca 10baseT hub, into a Welfleet bridging
> over Frame-Relay-over-ATM at 1.5Mbps simplex speeds into an over-committed
> 4Mbps port speed on the other side.
>
> i.e., the fact that your buying a leased line to connect and running HDLC
> over it doesn't count for anything.  When it comes right down to it, customers
> can't really be reassured of anything.

Quite true. Appearances can be deceiving.  :-)

I was just reiterating (what I thought to be) the obvious.

> But then, nobody expects the customer to realize this, right?
>
> Dave


Um, I won't touch this one.

- paul