[70451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Nelson)
Sat May 15 15:29:07 2004
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:27:36 -0400
To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@invisiblehand.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40A555BF.8000301@invisiblehand.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>Actually, our model doesn't allow for oversubscription as it's a committed
>(meaning you have the bandwidth that you purchased guaranteed to you),
>dynamic rate.
That would be impressive, in the residential market. BellSouth is rolling
out their 2Meg DSL here and TWCable already supports 3 meg on their
residential cable, 4 meg on Commercial accounts. I'd be interested in how
you'd compete with them AND not have to oversubscribe.
Rob Nelson
ronelson@vt.edu
