[36403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Wed Apr 4 18:21:55 2001
Message-Id: <200104042217.SAA09957@elektra.ultra.net>
In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039DC5@condor.mhsc.com> from Roeland Meyer at "Apr 3, 2001 12:05:24 pm"
To: rmeyer@mhsc.com (Roeland Meyer)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:17:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said:
<snip>
> My latest quote for a new DSL connection is 42 days. T1s are 6-8 weeks.
> Bigger pipes are 2-6 months for the fastest response, many cases are longer.
>
> Back to business failures, the DSL world is looking rocky at best. Rythms
> isn't looking very solid and neither is Covad. Some of the NorthPoint
> customers are not going with either, electing to go with the local RBOC
> instead (despite the hassles and long lead-times). What many businesses
> really need is true multi-homing.
<snip>
So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to multihome.
You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL, which just
isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".
