[9346] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Raisch, The Internet Company)
Wed Dec 29 21:21:38 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 18:08:55 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
To: "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com>
Cc: matthew@echo.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312292126.AA04905@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com>
On Wed, 29 Dec 1993, Dick St.Peters wrote:
>
> > From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
>
> > > emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti):
> > >
> > > Find some small number of friends, incorporate, get a line to the
> > > Internet, get some modems for your own in-dials, and bring the
> > > cash price down yourself. (You are trading your time and effort
> > > and aggregation of circuits for money.) If there are busy signals
> > > you have only yourself and your colleagues to blame.
> >
> > Right. And then find that you've now become an IP reseller,
> > so most of the current IP providers won't talk to you, except
> > for ANS (very expensive) or Sprint. And then find that since
> > you want AUP-free routing, your little effort has to join
> > the CIX, so you're out another $10,000 / year.
> > Oops. Ran out of money.
>
> Matthew, somebody answered the part about the CIX: you only need to
> pay the $10K if you sell to "multiple geographic areas".
Not in our experience. I work with 15 companies who have all thrown
their hats into the ring to obtain inexpensive (read dirt cheap) IP
access. Originally, we were an experiment with NEARnet, but recently
have moved to SPRINTlink and the CIX. Our member companies are all
within the same geographic area (Boston and environs) and yet, we were
told by SPRINT that we needed to become a CIX member before they would
route us. We did. We are.
While I don't begrudge the CIX their fee (afterall, we are connected and
for 15 companies who all pay $2600/year for up to 56kbps IP connectivity
it is one hell of a deal), but I would like someone from CIX to step up
and state the policy requirements for the record. (Bill? You there? ;)
</rr> (Rob Raisch, wearing his CENTnet hat, this time.)
