[63268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Thu Oct 2 15:16:25 2003
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:14:57 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310021455370.14627-100000@clifden.donelan.c
om>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 02:57 PM 10/2/2003, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > I have found a possible source of satellite bandwidth for this, assuming a
> > critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it. Interested
> parties
> > should send me an email off list please.
>
>If a critical mass of users could be accumulated to pay for it, I imagine
>Cidera would still be in business.
If Cidera had ever returned our calls or email to tell us the services they
offered after they installed the dish on the roof of our datacenter and the
server and satellite receiver in our rack, they might still be in business.
:P From those I've talked to, I'm not the only one who never actually used
any services from them because we weren't sure exactly what those services
were or what they cost. Something about a DS3 of bandwidth for an ihave
news feed for $350-500/month was mentioned before they installed anything
and I agreed to it verbally. They were awfully anxious to get that dish
installed. Perhaps due to loan covenants that they deploy x installations
per month?
-Robert
btw- Installation of the dish and the PIII 1U server with mirrored HDDs
were all given to us for free. I REALLY didn't get their business model and
I still don't...
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