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Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah.
From: mikeg () savvis com (Mike Gaddis)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 10:38:24 -0600
Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote: I agree, there is a need for long-haul providers. But they also don't have to be that big. 20-30 people companies with an annual gross of, say 10 million, would probably do it. All they need is a T3/OC3/OC12 nation wide mesh which is expensive, but not that expensive. Plus peering arangements. Try selling a third T3 to a local ISP with 100 T1 clients and two T3s to larger networks. The local ISP will most likely talk about pricing plus how hop-counts can be reduced for his customers. Pricing being the more important factor at this point. Dirk Rest of thread deleted... Dirk, You are showing a lack of knowledge about the real costs of long haul networking. Economies of scale do not even begin to come into play until the revenue hits $50 million or so given the need for a network that is not sparsely connected or under provisoned in the backbone. This is the reality. There is a definitive place for the "big boys" as transit aggregators of bandwidth. Without them our collective costs would skyrocket. Mike Gaddis Savvis Communications - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah., (continued)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Michael Dillon (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Aleph One (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Michael Dillon (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Wayne D. Correia (Mar 30)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Stephen Sprunk (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Elise Gerich (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. babylon (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Mar 30)
- Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah. Mike Gaddis (Mar 30)
- RE: ARIN is A Good Thing Ehud Gavron (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is A Good Thing Paul A Vixie (Mar 29)
- RE: ARIN is A Good Thing Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Mar 29)
- Re: ARIN is A Good Thing Mike Gaddis (Mar 30)
- Re: ARIN is A Good Thing Randy Bush (Mar 30)