[3938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Aug 29 17:05:25 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:40:34 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: hchen@aimnet.net, nanog@merit.edu, perry@piermont.com
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>Raw bandwidth is inherently cheap. Undersea lines are even fairly
>cheap, except nasty government price fixing keeps them
>expensive. Switching equipment is expensive right now but Moore's Law
>takes care of that over the years.
Excuse me, but bandwidth demand doubles in about half year,
while Moore's law is that semiconductor capacity doubles every
2 years. There's no indication that this will change any time
soon.
Nice brick wall :)
--vadim
