[5097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Tue Oct 8 20:41:30 1996
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gordon Cook <cook@netaxs.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu
cc: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610090012.AA16737@zed.isi.edu>
Dorian writes: So if you follow that train of thought, building
a private net for "important/meritorious" traffic makes some amount of
sense.
Cook: who chooses to define what is meritorious/important?
From what I understand Internet II will be brought to us by IBM using ATT
bit pipes. The vBNS is a $50 million NSF investment in MCI. I *DO* wonder
how synergy between the efforts is to be achieved?
Ironically I understand that it is MCI measured usage charging on DS-3s
that has increased the cost of this bandwidth to universities by 300 to
400 per cent over what they had been paying that is increasing their
anguish.
Bill manning adds: When will MCI/Sprint/WorldCom/ATT provide cost
effective, clear channel OC48 pipes?
Cook: when hell freezes over is my guess.
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