[12469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 16:32:31 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:03:56 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.970917143133.18220D-100000@squall.traveller.com>; from "John A. Tamplin" <jat@traveller.com> on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 02:34:40PM -0500
On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 02:34:40PM -0500, John A. Tamplin wrote:
> > This doesn't seem to be technically difficult, and it seems like it
> > ought to be pretty easy to sell... sure, you're one hop further from
> > the backbone... but you're now two hops away from _10_.
> >
> > Sane? I should be looking for capital? :-)
> >
> > Are there any major potholes in this theory that I'm missing?
>
> We do this already, but the main problem we run into is customers are
> hesitant to buy services from a direct competitor. Doesn't matter that we
> are cheaper or have good connectivity, but that they don't want to have to
> sell against who they are buying services from. The fact the MCI/Sprint/etc
> all sell local access doesn't seem to bother them as much.
Ok... so only sell to resellers? Does that cut too far into the profit
margin?
> We have been successful doing this, but it is definitely a hard sell.
> And this is with the advantage that we are offering ATM connectivity to a
> local exchange service at cheaper prices than can be had anywhere around.
Hmmm....
Thanks for the input.
Cheers,
-- jra
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