[94151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Video: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Jan 10 17:21:43 2007
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:16:44 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@t1r.com>
Cc: bill.norton@gmail.com,
Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E39FB5B0-C055-42FA-A8CE-9632DC182297@t1r.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> One other issue is that willingness to sell 10G is one vital competitive
> distinguisher in an otherwise largely commodity transit market. There
> have been rumors that older legacy carriers wish to punish more agile
> competitors for daring to "steal" 10G customers away from them, in spite
> of the fact that those older carriers have lots of trouble delivering 10G.
>
There isn't anything new to that either. I can think of (similar to
Sean's story) a time when a backbone had all NxDS3 links in their
network and used to be very upset at the idea of selling OC3s instead of
NxDS3 ("If its good enough for *our* backbone...").
Then this network went ATM on Fore systems boxes with handoffs to Cisco
routers to leapfrog their competitors... which um, didn't work...
Then they reluctantly went POS and "better" systems since...
They are still around today after about 6 name changes. I have no
present-day-knowledge of their network or, really, their performance, so
I don't want to mention any names.
Deepak
