[8449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Gaddis)
Sun Mar 30 11:43:42 1997
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 10:38:24 -0600
From: mikeg@savvis.com (Mike Gaddis)
Reply-To: mikeg@savvis.com
To: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
CC: babylon@mokushi.psybernet.com, nanog@merit.edu
Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote:
I agree, there is a need for long-haul providers. But they also
don't have
to be that big. 20-30 people companies with an annual gross of, say
10
million, would probably do it. All they need is a T3/OC3/OC12 nation
wide
mesh which is expensive, but not that expensive. Plus peering
arangements.
Try selling a third T3 to a local ISP with 100 T1 clients and two
T3s to
larger networks. The local ISP will most likely talk about pricing
plus
how hop-counts can be reduced for his customers. Pricing being the
more
important factor at this point.
Dirk
Rest of thread deleted...
Dirk,
You are showing a lack of knowledge about the real costs of long haul
networking. Economies of scale do not even begin to come into play
until the revenue
hits $50 million or so given the need for a network that is not sparsely
connected or
under provisoned in the backbone. This is the reality. There is a
definitive place for the "big boys"
as transit aggregators of bandwidth. Without them our collective costs
would skyrocket.
Mike Gaddis
Savvis Communications
