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Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:51:22 -0400
On Aug 16, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:What do you care which routers they use? I've seen networks buy the most expensive routers and run a crappy network, and I've seen people run stable networks on the cheap. I just want my bits to flow quickly and reliably. I don't really care if you do it on Juniper, Force10, cisco, or tin-cans-and-string.Well, with the GSR (and alike) you're paying for high MTBF, large buffersand quick re-routing when something happens, so yes, this is a quality issue and that's why you should care and make an informed decision.
I submit that the equipment in the network is far, far less important than the people running the equipment. I repeat: "I've seen networks buy the most expensive routers and run a crappy network, and I've seen people run stable networks on the cheap."
I do not care what equipment the network uses, as long as my packets get to their destination reliably and quickly. This may or may not place restrictions on the equipment to be used (can you get my packets there "reliably and quickly" on tin-cans-and-string?), and it almost certainly places restrictions on who runs that equipment, but those are the provider's problem, not mine.
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit, (continued)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michel Py (Aug 12)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit William B. Norton (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Frederic NGUYEN (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit alex (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Matthew Kaufman (Aug 16)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Matthew Kaufman (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit William B. Norton (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Daniel Roesen (Aug 16)
- Re: Cisco/Juniper right of resale. Gerald (Aug 16)
- Re: Cisco/Juniper right of resale. John Curran (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Petri Helenius (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit John Curran (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Joe Provo (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Vincent J. Bono (Aug 16)