[97887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Fri Jul 13 07:24:58 2007
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:16:31 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7bb79a490707122006g767c3d42u88e84d5782545355@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
micky coughes wrote:
> I can see that *everybody* is missing the point on Peter's exercise.
> Clearly this is to show to the telcos of the world that you can upgrade
> to a native IP infrastructure and absorb the existing transport into the
> router with a minimal effort. There was a post here from someone that
> was there that explained how simple it was. This is HUGE! This has
> the potential to completely disrupt telco transport dinosaur groups
> *and* reshape the future. Taking it to his mom's house is just a poke
> in the telco eye, he is making fun of them. This then begs the question
> why can they do it between their facilities? If one guy can do it to a
> *house* it must not be that hard. However, telcos with transport groups
> of 1000s can't pull this off, this little project states volumes.
There may be some telco's out there that don't know these types of
technologies are out there. But for many, they are quiet aware. The
fact is 10G seems a lot more economically feasible right now. Maybe if
40G, OC768 WDM line cards didn't cost over a quarter million dollars
each there would be more deployments of it. The rate and cost of
facility upgrades are far surpassing the means to make the ROI models work.
-Robert
