cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

Mon Apr 18 05:21:09 UTC 2005

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote:

>
>> Do you have any idea what sort of underprovisioning is typical for this
>> sort of service in Japan ? Do they really have anything like a symmetric
>> 100 Mbps all the way back to the backbone ?
>
> yep

Do you have any reference for this?

Provisioning 10G distribution links for every 100 customers doesn't seem a 
viable business model considering the cost of equipment today. Where is 
the aggregation done and at what traffic level?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se