[9582] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Hans-Werner/Conditions Remark
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Wed Jan 12 19:27:08 1994
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:25:20 -0800 (PST)
Hans,
>From your remark am I to draw the conclusion that unless someone complains
or is effected by a backbone, that is built less than spec., its not a
problem ?
If the NSf is paying out our tax dollars for T-3 services and switching
, then I expect to see ANS/Merit return and provide what was paid for.
Maybe I am wrong, if I am please correct me but, if the network is supposed
to support T-3 its supposed to do it all the time, not after the demand on
the network has been made.
Your remark about customers other then RE can't really matter that much.
ANS does not have that many commercial customers at this time. For a long
time about the best speeds that they could do was 21.5. This is based on
info. that ANS is willing to talk about. Remember, IBM will not allow anyone
to benchmark the RS6000 config's. when set in a backbone environment.
All of this is academic. The award is near announcement and ANS has only
last month completed the upgrade to T-3. I see this a nothing more than
convenient timing.
If you claim to have the ability to service customers at T-3 in speed and
through put, then I would expect to see it. Otherwise it seems to me that
someone is not being truthful. I know that ANS told me they had pricing and
would love to sell a T-3 connection, a connection that would be functional
in every way. That was in Jan of 1993. If they could make such claims one
year ago, then why the December delivery ? I don't expect you to have the
answer to that question but, it would be interesting to hear it.
Joseph Stroup
