[2250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Plato)
Fri Mar 29 15:38:48 1996
From: "Larry J. Plato" <ljp@ans.net>
To: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:04:52 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: bajaj@bellcore.com, smd@icp.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9603290732.AA13074@butler.ncube.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Mar 28, 96 11:32:58 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.
> >
> >Doesn't the fact that they recover the investment mean that enough
> >people wanted the product and were willing to pay for it?
> >
> >Shikhar
>
> Nah, rather that they woudln't get a choice or would not know
> better. ATM is like a pyramid craze.
>
> --vadim
>
> PS Can you say that loss writeoff is a way to recover investment?
> I've certainly seen some clever accounting going on :)
>
IMHO loss writeoff would be less of a loss than deploying ATM
and having to live with it. It's not that I hate ATM per se,
but why pay the performance penalty when ATM provides no value
add,
Larry Plato
I speak for myself only.
