[3888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Aug 26 13:04:23 1996
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:48:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <960826031804.4d5@SDG.DRA.COM>
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Depending how you account
> for interconnect costs, a provider selling $2700/month T1 packet-switched
> connections with a 23:1 bandwidth overbooking ratio generates the same
> revenue as analog voice circuits at 10cents/minute - 4cents/minute
> interconnect fees.
You mean gross revenue don't you? Also, that price seems steep for 23:1
ratio. Wouldn't that be closer to the price for 10:1?
The other factor here is costs. The cost of billing 10 cent a minute phone
calls is HUGE compared to billing a bunch of monthly flat rate T1's.
> Well, there was a few rounding errors long the way, but 67Kbps is darn
> close to a DS0 at 6cents/minute. Bad news for the Internet telephony
> folks, there still ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Don't forget that Internet telephony uses compression. I don't know if
they use 4:1 compression but I do know that companies like Gandalf can put
4 voice lines through a DS0 and still leave 19200 bps for data.
> If I'm paying for voice telephone level quality, am I getting it?
You pay for what you get. If you don't like the quality, go somewhere
else. Interestingly, the advent of Internet phone allows consumers a
choice in quality that they didn't have before.
> Internet Network Operators (to relate this slightly to NANOG) need to
> look at diversifying their Internet connections between providers.
Does this mean that Sprint should be buying transit form MCI and ANS
instead of just using their own lines? ;-)
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com