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Re: Coincidence...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed May 7 18:16:51 1997

Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:04:13 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: avg@pluris.com, bmanning@isi.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

Bill Manning wrote:

>If they do, and no alternatives, then a terabit router is worthless.
>I can't get the infrastructure to support it.  If the PSTN is the
>only game in town, then its ATM or nothing.. and ATM won't cut it
>at those rates.

I'd say telcos have some intelligent people working for them.  And
then, there are new players in the long-distance fiber game:
watch for those who acquire big ISPs, or people from big ISPs :)

--vadim

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