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Re: Ungodly packet loss rates

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Tue Oct 22 12:26:25 1996

From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: tli@jnx.com (Tony Li)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jbash@velvet.com, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199610220753.AAA06551@chimp.jnx.com> from "Tony Li" at Oct 22, 96 00:53:44 am

> 2) Lack of bandwidth.  There are frequently cases where the bandwidth
> simply does not exist.  This may be due to lack of planning, lack of will,
> greed, or whatever.  Only economics will drive this forward.

Or lack of tariffs.  There are a number of places where it would
be real interesting to buy a pile of OC3s, but the telcos simply
can't sell it since they don't have a way of doing so.

Bandwidth not existing may also be due to the telcos simply not
having it available.
	--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)

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