[1960] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Summarizing the Situation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Hanks)
Sun Jan 12 21:47:01 1992
From: Stan Hanks <stan@casc.math.uh.edu>
To: brian@lloyd.com
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 20:50:31 CST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9201112317.AA04564@ray.lloyd.com>; from "Brian Lloyd" at Jan 11, 92 3:17 pm
> 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.
Not that I have an ax to grind either way, but what if the CIXer's
banded together to capitalize the necessary hardware and just grabbed
MCI Switched DS-3 service to lace up their own backbone? Admittedly,
you'd have to find some way to apportion the variable cost back out to
the end users or the mid-levels, but still, it's significantly cheaper
than lacing up a dedicated DS-3 network...
Sort of seems like an obvious thing to do. And given the ANS <-> MCI link,
might amuse a those people who enjoy a bit of irony...
Regards,
Stanley P. Hanks Principal Scientist
Technology Transfer Associates, P.O. Box 2087, Bellaire TX 77402-2087
e-mail: stan@karazm.math.uh.edu voice: (713) 661-2084 fax: (713) 662-8504
