[38152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More BW, Less Taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue May 29 13:58:44 2001
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:47:53 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, Albert Meyer <albert@waller.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
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Yeah I found that too Simon, in pricing up an STM1 London to NY not so
long ago I found the cost of the two tails from the landing sites to be
more than the actual transatlantic leg!
Maybe fiber prices are low, so the cost of dropping a cable in water is
low but the cost of labour etc to dig across a city remains high.
Steve
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>
> > 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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Stephen J. Wilcox
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