[11116] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS and the CIX - have they really connected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Tue Mar 22 05:23:51 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 21:13:06 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199403191104.DAA06312@netcom9.netcom.com> from "Glenn S. Tenney" at Mar 19, 94 03:04:35 am
>
> At 7:31 PM 3/18/94 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >Do you, as "Small Providers Are Us" want to negotiate THIRTY different
> >interconnect agreements?
>
> Let's see... 30 members at $10k each... What does CIX do with $300K a year?
> What do they spend it on...? I'm not trying to flame, I really want to
> know -- you pay your money and get interconnect agreements, but what is
> your money spent on?
Well, let me see what I can come up with here.
30 ports of T1 access on a CISCO 7000 = $100,000 or so
At least one person on the payroll (Washburn) - $50k/year or more, plus benefits
(BTW, I do NOT object to someone making a reasonable wage,
especially in an executive position)
Services provided to keep the CIX running (????)
A building to house it in
CSU/DSUs
Hot spares
Service contracts
And lots of indirect costs (like power) that aren't obvious at first.
$300,000 sounds like a lot of money. It isn't. I would suspect that if
the model grows beyond that which you can support with one router, you end
up with an FDDI ring to start and lots of routers. That's going to get
<godawful> expensive fast -- I've built those before.
Yes, I know that count is imprecise because some folks use shared links
(through Sprint, for example). That's not the point.
The CIX is a non-profit, which means it has to file public returns which
can be looked at. Those who want to snipe at the funding should grab those
first.
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