[1956] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Summarizing the Situation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joachim Martillo @ azea)
Sun Jan 12 14:44:54 1992
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 14:37:20 EST
From: martillo@azea.clearpoint.com (Joachim Martillo @ azea)
To: brian@lloyd.com
Cc: cook@tmn.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Brian Lloyd's message of Sat, 11 Jan 92 15:17:28 PST <9201112317.AA04564@ray.lloyd.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 92 15:17:28 PST
From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd)
Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com
There is one issue that arises out of this whole thing that prevents
the world from walking away from ANS: they have a T3 backbone. The
CIX shares information over a pipe that is 1.544 Mbps wide. For
better or worse the folk at ANS saw a good thing and grabbed it. They
got the contract from the NSF and the rest is history.
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Lloyd & Associates
I have to wonder how long this monopology on T3 backbones will last and how
important the monopoly will be in the long run.
Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
