[1704] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: nsfnet as large-scale testbed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.c)
Thu Dec 12 09:12:05 1991
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 03:55:26 PST
From: Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@rxg.xerox.com
In-Reply-To: "LAWS@ai.sri:com:Xerox's message of 11-December-91 (Wednesday) 18:50:34 +1"
To: com-priv@psi.com
Ken Laws writes:
<unrelated to advances in communications technology, except as it ends
criticism that we are losing the high-speed networking race to Japan and
Europe.>
Who says? Europe may be doing a lot of research, but no deployment. You can't
even get a 2.4k modem line to stay up longer than 5 minutes over here.
Reliability? Nope. Service. Double-nope.
There is no significant high speed-wide area networking (I'm talking about
>19.2kbs, much less ANYTHING over 56kbs!) being done outside of the USA. End of
story. There are always exceptions and I'm sure that this note will bring them
out. But the old argument `losing the high-speed networking race to Japan and
Europe' is nothing but crap. Got to find another way to justify the expense.
