More BW, Less Taxes
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Tue May 29 16:42:11 UTC 2001
>
> > Trans-oceanic capabilities will remain a bottleneck, but they
> > are not as problematic as in the previous decade. Witness Tyco
> > or any of the other folk that have cable-laying capability. Last
> > year they had waiting lines for boats. Now the boats are idle.
> > Too much capacity in water and no-one taking it up. (see first
> > point above)
>
> Transatlantic bandwidth is becoming surprisingly cheap. It's now 50%
> cheaper to get from New York to London than it is to get from New York to
> San Jose.
>
> Simon
Yup. However, have you priced an STM1 from Sydney to Tokyo vs
STM1 from Sydney to US and Tokyo to US? The two STM1s are about
75% of the cost of the direct STM1.
Please repeat the exercise between Rome and Stockholm vs Rome/US
& Stockholm/US.
--bill
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