[33037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: florida ix(en) facing south
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas A. Dever)
Thu Dec 21 14:48:24 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:07:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Douglas A. Dever" <dever@hq.oh.verio.net>
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To: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
>We try
> to be very flexible to the point that we are location independant, but there
> are probably some economic realities which will set in soone or later.
And here is the key sentence in the first two paragraphs. :)
> The Florida-MIX is designed to provide several different ways of connecting to
> the NAP, and I am not aware of any restrictions which tie you to a particular
> carrier.
Of course, there are probably some economic realities which will set in
sooner or later. :-)
>
> I understand (and since I wasn't born into this company, I also share) some of
> the feelings and reservations against RBOCs. However, I think in
> BellSouth.net's defence, there are several fine IP geeks working on this
> project, and a lot of brains and effort spent on worrying about how to make
> this successful and we're trying our very best to do this right
I have no doubt of that, but in the end, these things have to pay for
themselves. Many projects start out with incredibly open-minded people
working on a great project, but in order to shake things out on the bottom
line, bean-counters and MBA's eventually brush some (or a lot) of that
aside to address the "economic realities." Forgive me if I'm sounding
skeptical, but none of us are here to lose money.
--
Douglas A. Dever dever@verio.net
Network Engineering Manager
Verio - http://www.verio.net
