[37558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The DSL business model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Tue May 15 16:31:53 2001
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:23:21 -0400
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: 'Steve Sobol' <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>,
Steve Schaefer <schaefer@simone.dashbit.com>, jmarr@twmaine.com,
hunter@compuhelp.com, jpayne@sackheads.org, nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F0922860E45F9@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:36:19PM -0700
From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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Not to mention that if you're looking to do BGP, most providers won't
think of letting you run BGP over anything that's not at least a T1. When
I was at Intermedia, we didn't even let customer do BGP over frame relay -
they had to have a fractional T1 service at minimum.
-C
> The technology that can be faulted, and I sincerely apologize for not being
> clear enough on this, is that which prevents adequate redundancy at the
> end-nodes. The fact that 100,000 businesses can get lopped off by a single
> provider business failure is pretty sad. I've tried, for over a year, to get
> redundant uplinks to an alternate provider (ISDN backup to xDSL). CIDR,
> prefix filtering, and cluelessness nail that effort every time. It doesn't
> seem to matter that I am more than willing to pay for it. It simply isn't
> available. But, it should be (I don't mean tinker-toy methods either).
> Before CIDR, it was. The past few quarters has shown how necessary it is.
> Guys, this is a huge market gap, why isn't anyone filling it?
>
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> ROELAND M.J. MEYER
> Managing Director
> Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc.
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