[37458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Mon May 14 11:57:48 2001
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 06:09:15 -0700
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>
Cc: jmarr@twmaine.com, "'John Palmer (NANOG Acct)'" <nanog@adns.net>,
nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <006c01c0dc6f$c4c63ae0$afe6378e@wojtek>; from wojtekz@idirect.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:16:56AM -0400
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:16:56AM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> You have to look at economies of scale. A small to medium sized
> business cannot afford to colocate or purchase more reliable bandwidth.
> Since their business does not rely on thier line, they can do without more
> expensive connection. Second, they may be upgrading from other technologies
> such as ISDN or POTS. DSL is far from a reliable technology, yet quite far
> from an unreliable technology. I sit on the fence in regrards to its
> performance and other characteristics. The work that I have done working
> for a CLEC has shown me that a line that works well from the start is likely
> to stay up for weeks/months.
However, if a small to medium sized business has made the decision to
go for a cheap option rather than pay for service and reliability, should
they then come whining in inappropriate fora when their connectivity goes
down?
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