[32816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metro-area fiber providers (WAS Re: Cogent Communications?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Cooper)
Thu Dec 14 12:24:29 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:13:41 -0700
From: Dave Cooper <dcooper@magi.gulp.org>
To: Matt Clauson <mec@dotorg.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Not that i am even remotely defending Cogent but
how does Yipes plan to offer Internet at Gigabit
speeds? Or is that more marketing fud....
Quoted from Yipes web page:
"Yipes is Faster. Yipes brings you the Internet at
fiber-optic speeds, up to 1 Gbps"
-dave
-dave
Matt Clauson wrote:
>
> DISCLAIMER: Even though I'm posting this from my personal account, I work
> for Yipes Communications, who is a competitor of Cogent. Please take anything
> I say with the appropriate amounts of salt. I promise I'll try not to advertise
> too much. The comments I write below are mine and mine alone, however, and do
> not reflect on Yipes Communications, or my DSL provider, or anyone else but me. ;)
>
> In fact, to be fair, about the only thing I think I can, or should, say is that
> there are other providers out there than Cogent. There was a Slashdot thread,
> for those who care about such things:
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/05/1317235&mode=nested
>
> Working for a competitor, I shouldn't say much else at this point, lest it appear I
> be attempting to spread FUD. If you have any questions about what we provide, please
> send them to me offlist and I'll try to get them answered.
>
> --mec
