[14767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Jan 23 15:24:19 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:47:21 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@xcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980123141741.23939Y-100000@bisco.clark.net>
At 02:34 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Nobody in their right mind would sell T1 to every customer and do 1000:1
>> overcommit of their transit links without some kind of bandwidth shaping.
>> Since that shaping is part of the engineering plan, the marketroids will
>> have to find some way to come clean about it in the advertising glossies.
>
>We've got 40 T1 ADSL customers coming into a single 1.1Mb SMDS connection
And I'll bet they're all at different speeds as well, both TX and RX.
It sounds like you have to play it by ear, that coming up with some
mathematical model is *almost* impossible.
Regards,
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Martin Hannigan hannigan@xcom.net
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