[17348] in North American Network Operators' Group
flat vs non-flat charging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Scharf)
Fri May 29 12:56:51 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:07:02 -0700
From: Jerry Scharf <scharf@vix.com>
I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. With WDM,
the cost of the WDM and SONET eqiupment on the ends of a fully populated 32
channel per fiber, 144 strand pull vastly outweight end-to-end fiber costs of
anything pulled through the ground. When you add routers and the like on top
of that, the distance issue really goes away and it becomes on of network
topology hops. Can anyone with figures for new intercontinental pulls say
whether this is true there as well (project oxygen marketing claims this,
but...)?
Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP
services is just not right.
jerry
