[12236] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: too many routes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani)
Wed Sep 10 14:22:21 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>>Please people, we must stop abstructions to keep the market open and
>>competitive.
>
>Can you spell "economies of scale"? Or "using fiber at cost means
>owning the fiber"? If you want to play the backbone game you've
>got to own long-haul transmission facilities.
>
>A small backbone provider simply cannot be competitive; no more than
>neighbour garage can compete with Chrysler.
There are backbone providers and there are providers of specialized
ISP or hosting or security etc. services that need independent* IP
address space and do not have to waste resources on building a private
"backbone".
I had thought predicting consolidation in the Internet services
market was an exclusive realm of only the clueless "market research"
firms. Even they seem to be wisening up.
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*So they can avoid the slowest "backbone" of the month on
an on-going basis.
