[42] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: competition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Mon Oct 29 17:52:50 1990
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 17:20:31 est
From: kwe@buitb.bu.edu (Kent England)
To: com-priv@psi.com, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
> From: Roy Smith <roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
> To: com-priv@psi.com
> Subject: competition
>
> ... Given the current state of technology,
> assume that I'm a T1 customer of PSINet and decide I don't like the service
> I'm getting. How hard would it be to switch to UUNet's network, without
> any disruption in service?
I suppose if I were a representative of a commercial internet
service provider, I would be trying to convince you that you could not
get an equivalent level of service from another vendor.
It would be tricky at best. You probably need a new local
loop to the new carrier, so you would have to overlap service for a
month or two to be sure of maintaining connectivity thru your local
exchange carrier.
But it is certainly doable. Here at BU we went from
cypressnet to ARPAnet to JvNCnet to NEARnet in the space of about two
years. And we managed to stay connected the whole time. Well,
almost. At least we were connected on paper the whole time. :-)
--Kent
