[2431] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Billing systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Hanks)
Thu Feb 27 02:05:32 1992
From: Stan Hanks <stan@casc.math.uh.edu>
To: jhaverty@us.oracle.com (Jack Haverty)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 0:57:29 CST
Cc: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9202270221.AA04321@rivendell.us.oracle.com>; from "Jack Haverty" at Feb 26, 92 6:21 pm
>
> "...But if someone wants to use their link
> for high-bandwidth communication for only a few minutes in the average
> day, he will be dramatically overcharged...."
>
> This is precisely the situation you get with small sites and/or client/server
> kinds of usage. Solving this problem is I believe one of the key obstacles to
> commercial viability of Internet technology in large scale.
That's precisely one of the issues that we decided was key in the MFS
MDS (LAN-speed MAN) service. We hope to have that available sometime in
the first half of this year.
We also noted that the jump from 56kbs to 1.544Mbs to ~45Mbs, both in
terms of price and applicability to the task at hand is hardly what the
average user needs. If I'm running Ethernet on campus, I need more than
T1 but less (*MUCH* less) than T3. Hence, the motivation to provide 10Mbs
connections and "scalable" (1 < n < 100 Mbs, where n may be varied) connections.
In my experience, that jumbo step up from T1 to anything else is the
biggest single limiting factor in what people do with high-speed
internetworking in the large.
Regards,
Stanley P. Hanks Principal Scientist, Technology Transfer Associates
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