[24085] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue May 18 03:03:23 1999
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:01:57 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: hank@ibm.net.il, nanog@merit.edu, steriley@microsoft.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Actually, the cost of undersea capacity is smaller than the
cost of land capacity. For all i know, prices are being kept
artificially high by parties i don't want to name (they
know).
(Think cost of rights of way and that digging trenches
is not that easy).
--vadim
Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> wrote:
> You are merely showing your geocentricism by saying that bandwidth is
> essentially free. That may be true in the USA but not in other countries
> and especially not trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic.
