[37473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: People who purchase unproven technologies...DSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wojtek Zlobicki)
Mon May 14 16:55:00 2001
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From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz@idirect.com>
To: "Shawn McMahon" <smcmahon@eiv.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:35:34 -0400
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On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:53:50AM -0400, mike harrison wrote:
>
> > Why would anyone purchase dsl to run their business on. Let me guess,
the
> > price was right.
>
> I would call it a proven technology, but a very poor business model.
> And xDSL is definately not for mission critical operations.
>x is sometimes "H".
>Are you sure you want to say HDSL is not for mission-critical operations?
Very well put. I do not think however that many cosider HDSL to be part to
the DSL family (mainlydue to the fact that it often uses two pairs instead
of one). I think if we are talking xDSL, HDSL is in most cases excluded
from the picture.
