Internet II is coming...

Wed Oct 9 01:07:36 UTC 1996

> 
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 bmanning at ISI.EDU wrote:
> 
> > > Bill manning adds:    When will MCI/Sprint/WorldCom/ATT provide cost
> > > effective, clear channel OC48 pipes?
> > > 
> > > Cook: when hell freezes over is my guess.
> > > 
> > 
> > 	Manning: Thats what I heard a few years ago about DS3s.
> 
> Sprint and Nynex already have some ATM OC48 deployed. It's just a matter
> of time and customers with the money to pay for it.
> 

	As do MFS/WorldCom, ATT, TCG, PacBell, GTE, Cable&Wireless,
	ad nausia.  What -is- interesting is that none of them
	have OC48c available, and none of it priced as such. All of
	it is priced at unit cost, e.g. a 64k voice channel.  Muxing
	together smaller pipes into bigger ones the the game the telcos
	want to play.  Of course there is the host interface
	problem... but Peter L. should have more to say there.

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--bill