[22170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Dec 9 21:36:26 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:57:41 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981209192442.00aab164@odie.av8.com>; from Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 07:31:25PM -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 07:31:25PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> >can get my loop down from $300 to $150... when my router port is still
> >$1800. Nice, yeah, but not what people mean when they blather about
> >"cheap bandwidth". If it's _that_ cheap, it's running under completely
> >different assumptions than a standard T-1; viz: cable modems.
>
> Um, actually, I think think you can get DSLAM's for about $700 per port or
> less going by my recent informal surveys.
>
> Router ports have been way overpriced for a long time. They were overpriced
> when an AGS sold for 30K with a stack of ethernet, serial, and an fddi
> port. Of course, back then the pricing model optimistically expected to
> sell only a few thousand. They got even more overpriced later, and now
> expect to sell hundreds of thousands.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you've misunderstood me. :-)
I'm not talking about the card, I'm talking about my proportion of the
amount the guy I'm buying from has to pay for _his_ uplink.
Bandwidth Costs Money.
Cheers,
-- jra
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