[40417] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Wed Aug 8 12:47:25 2001
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:45:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: "Kavi, Prabhu" <prabhu_kavi@tenornetworks.com>
Cc: "'Vadim Antonov'" <avg@exigengroup.com>,
"'Christian Kuhtz'" <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Kavi, Prabhu wrote:
> If service provider Y sucks, then customers will leave it.
Ahhh.. The lie of pure capitolism...
This is the assumption that the customer has perfect knowledge. It's
wrong. It's not as simple as: If they suck, the customer will leave.
> growth. At one time, UUNET's traffic was simply outrunning the
> ability of L3 routers to keep up. Their choices were to:
As you admitted before, this is not a factor in the market today. I don't
see much frame or ATM gear doing OC-192 switching.
