[2226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI [ATM overhead]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Mon Mar 25 18:06:20 1996
From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:50:29 -0600 (CST)
To: avg@postman.ncube.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:09:51 +0800
> From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
> To: jogden@merit.edu, nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: MCI [ATM overhead]
> [...]
> The pricing on ATM transport is merely an artefact of "pilot"
> status of ATM networks. Carriers lose money on that. When
> market will be established the prices are bound to rise to
> that of native IP transport, or, likely, more (as ATM does not handle
> levels of overcommitment found in IP backbones now).
> [...]
Hmmm... Does that imply that the NSP that can take advantage of
underpriced services, (perhaps including ATM, if you are correct),
will have a competitive advantage?
-tjs
