[79904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Apr 18 01:21:36 2005
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:21:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16994.65015.466829.55875@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> Do you have any idea what sort of underprovisioning is typical for this
>> sort of service in Japan ? Do they really have anything like a symmetric
>> 100 Mbps all the way back to the backbone ?
>
> yep
Do you have any reference for this?
Provisioning 10G distribution links for every 100 customers doesn't seem a
viable business model considering the cost of equipment today. Where is
the aggregation done and at what traffic level?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se