[5101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Tue Oct 8 21:13:03 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 18:07:36 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961008175645.28462J-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 8, 96 05:58:05 pm
>
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 bmanning@ISI.EDU wrote:
>
> > > Bill manning adds: When will MCI/Sprint/WorldCom/ATT provide cost
> > > effective, clear channel OC48 pipes?
> > >
> > > Cook: when hell freezes over is my guess.
> > >
> >
> > Manning: Thats what I heard a few years ago about DS3s.
>
> Sprint and Nynex already have some ATM OC48 deployed. It's just a matter
> of time and customers with the money to pay for it.
>
As do MFS/WorldCom, ATT, TCG, PacBell, GTE, Cable&Wireless,
ad nausia. What -is- interesting is that none of them
have OC48c available, and none of it priced as such. All of
it is priced at unit cost, e.g. a 64k voice channel. Muxing
together smaller pipes into bigger ones the the game the telcos
want to play. Of course there is the host interface
problem... but Peter L. should have more to say there.
--
--bill
