[86567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Nov 10 23:08:58 2005
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:08:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <227A3DCC-4EAC-4662-AFF9-A1AF8640EA8F@corp.earthlink.net>
To: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: Blaine Christian <blaine@blaines.net>,
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
>
> So, there was a time when everyone said 'good grief, what would
> anyone do with 1.5mbps', and where in turn engineered bitrates ended
> up being several orders of magnitude lower. In fact, we all were
> worried what would happen to our POPs and backbone when 1.5mbps
> consumers showed up in volume back in the '98 timeframe.
>
oops ;) my point wasn't that bandwidth wasn't necessary over X speed, it
was that the main motivator for consumer purchase was no long bandwidth
but price alone.
Sorry for the confusion.
