[38131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More BW, Less Taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Tue May 29 12:19:53 2001
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: albert@waller.net (Albert Meyer), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 May 2001 16:28:40 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 17:18:53 +0100
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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> Trans-oceanic capabilities will remain a bottleneck, but they
> are not as problematic as in the previous decade. Witness Tyco
> or any of the other folk that have cable-laying capability. Last
> year they had waiting lines for boats. Now the boats are idle.
> Too much capacity in water and no-one taking it up. (see first
> point above)
Transatlantic bandwidth is becoming surprisingly cheap. It's now 50%
cheaper to get from New York to London than it is to get from New York to
San Jose.
Simon
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