[2236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shikhar Bajaj)
Fri Mar 29 00:56:42 1996
From: bajaj@bellcore.com (Shikhar Bajaj)
To: smd@icp.net (Sean Doran)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:49:30 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, bajaj@bellcore.com (Shikhar Bajaj)
In-Reply-To: <96Mar28.232949-0000_est.20639+31@chops.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Mar 28, 96 11:29:43 pm
According to Sean Doran:
>
> Someone suggested to me that it's because so much money has
> been spent on developing the technology that it HAS to be
> used in order to recover the investment.
>
> This may be somewhat apocryphal, but it's eminently
> believable.
>
> Sean.
>
Doesn't the fact that they recover the investment mean that enough
people wanted the product and were willing to pay for it?
Shikhar
