[3592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Jul 23 16:51:33 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:44:35 -0400
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Agreed. However, while one technology may be more economically
efficient today, it certainly may not tomorrow.
Also, economic comparisons need to also take into account functionality
(or lack thereof), administrative & maintenance overhead, etc., not just
monthly recurring transport costs.
- paul
At 02:50 PM 7/23/96 -0500, Tim Salo wrote:
>
>I think a more interesting measure of the value of ATM versus other
>wide-area technologies is some sort of measure of throughput per dollar.
>
>-tjs
>
