[24105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Tue May 18 16:33:30 1999
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: "Steve Riley (MCS)" <steriley@microsoft.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 May 1999 13:02:28 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:31:33 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
steriley@microsoft.com said:
> There is absolutely no technological reason why international rates
> are so much higher than domestic US rates.
?? Last time I looked the cost of transatlantic / transpacific cable
laying (per strand) was rather more than the cost of land-based cables.
There are lots of reasons for this which are primarilly technology
based (like what equipment works under water).
There are actually 2 differences: Firstly political ones to do with
circuits crossing country borders, and who is paying for the circuit,
and then the ones to do with geography and resultant tecnological
factors.
Intra-European bandwidth now appears to be as commoditized (if not
more) than intra-US bandwidth. Certainly there are *more* suppliers
of European IRU and dark fiber with live or soon-to-be-live network
(provided you only want to go to London, Amsterdam, Paris & Frankfurt)
than (say) you can buy NY, WDC, SF, LA.
However, removing political obstacles and introducing competition does
not also remove the atlantic.
--
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
