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Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh
From: jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:13:28 -0300
I don't buy this. They sold you one cable before, they sell you cable now. Little difference then we moved customers from a T1 to T3 back in the 90's. If Colo's can't understand more then 20+ yrs of evolution its hardly right to blame it on the market. -jim Mimir Networks www.mimirnetworks.com On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
Before 100G, you'd need ten cross connects to move 100G. Now you'd need only one. That's a big drop in revenue. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon () rd bbc co uk> To: bross () pobox com, dave () temk in Cc: nanog () nanog org Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:55:57 AM Subject: Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Dave Temkin <dave () temk in> wrote:And as colo operators get freaked out over margin compression on the impending 10->100G conversion (which is happening exponentially fasterthan100->1G & 1G->10G) they'll need to move those levers of spend around regardless.If they've based their model on extracting profit proportional to technology speed then they've misunderstood Moore's law brandon
Current thread:
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Dave Temkin (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Mike Hammett (Jun 19)
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- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Brandon Butterworth (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Mike Hammett (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh jim deleskie (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh David Barak via NANOG (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Patrick W. Gilmore (Jun 19)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Joe Hamelin (Jun 20)
- Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Mike Hammett (Jun 19)