cross connects and their pound of flesh

Sun Jun 19 14:13:28 UTC 2016

I don't buy this.  They sold you one cable before, they sell you cable now.
  Little difference then we moved customers from a T1 to  T3 back in the
90's.  If Colo's can't understand more then 20+ yrs of evolution its hardly
right to blame it on the market.

-jim
Mimir Networks
www.mimirnetworks.com

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> Before 100G, you'd need ten cross connects to move 100G. Now you'd need
> only one. That's a big drop in revenue.
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> From: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk>
> To: bross at pobox.com, dave at temk.in
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:55:57 AM
> Subject: Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh
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> Dave Temkin <dave at temk.in> wrote:
> > And as colo operators get freaked out over margin compression on the
> > impending 10->100G conversion (which is happening exponentially faster
> than
> > 100->1G & 1G->10G) they'll need to move those levers of spend around
> > regardless.
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> If they've based their model on extracting profit proportional
> to technology speed then they've misunderstood Moore's law
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> brandon
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