[14846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jan 26 19:53:40 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 19:33:59 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980124160949.8775.qmail@ivan.iecc.com>; from "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> on Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 04:09:49PM -0000
On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 04:09:49PM -0000, John R. Levine wrote:
> >The only thing I can figure is that the morons in question are going to
> >quote, for legal purposes, "peak" or "burst" bandwidth, ...
>
> Well, sure.
>
> Let's have a show of hands: today, who gets 53Kbits/sec throughput on
> an X56 dialup? Who gets 1.544Mbit/sec throughput on a T1? Hmmn,
> looks pretty quiet out there.
>
> Everyone's overcommitted, nobody can provide full pipe bandwidth on the
> connections they're selling now. This isn't news.
yes, but those people aren't usually selling a wide enough hose to make
it useful for resale or server operation, which the ADSL stuff _will_.
It's a different target audience, because of that, and I don't think
they get it.
> I suspect that the real market for xDSL will be as much telecommuting
> as web surfing, and so long as the telecommuters have a fast enough
> connection to the office which will probably not be very far away,
> that's all they care about.
_I_ think it will be "personal printing presses", as much as anything
else. But I've been wrong before. Course, I've been _right_ before,
too...
Cheers,
-- jra
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