[1774] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What constitutes high speed networking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prem Purodha)
Thu Dec 19 17:05:27 1991
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 23:21:19 UTC
From: purodha@purodha.gun.de (Prem Purodha)
To: CK.MAN@rxg.xerox.com.com-priv
In article <"13-Dec-91 13:53:41 +1".*.Charles_K._Kuhlman.MAN@RXG.Xerox.com>,
CK.MAN@rxg.xerox.com writes:
>
> Ok then (to all those who accuse me of anti-euorpean/japan/whomever bias) can
> we define high speed networking as:
>
> a) A big fat data pipe with lots of users, most of whom get somewhere around
> 2.4 kbs
>
> or
>
> b) COMMONLY available, INEXPENSIVELY priced, RELIABLE data comms of at least
> 56kbs DIRECT to the end user.
>
> Loaded words there.
Indeed :-)
Hey, I currently don't need that, but I in my Berlin office I can
have a reliable link with two 64Kbps channels within a week or ten
days, as in all major cities in West Germany. In 1993 I can have it
even in the deepest woods or on the highest mountains or the swamps,
everywhere in Germany, West or East. Oh, if need be, I could as
well order 50 of those double 64Kbps channels (at the price of 10,
or so) What can I use them for? Whatever I like (Telephone, FAX,
data communications, etc.), including but not limited to running IP
over them. From my desk to yours, if we choose so.
Admittedly, its too costy, admittedly, its strict government owned
and government run monopoly, lousy service. Healthy competition
would most likely reduce cost below half and make service at least
tolerable. Despite several things left to embetter in the (near)
future, you can have that in Europe, you can have it NOW, and it's
common mass market technology.
While I definitely and undoubtedly agree with all you said, don't
think Eupope is so technically backwards as it sometimes seems to
be. If you look solely at installation figures, yes the're less
than US ones, but, after all, Europe is a lot less land and
population is less than America's, too.
Prem Purodha
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