OT: PHB Wants Information-- Not Available?

Thu Oct 11 21:26:03 UTC 2001

Sorry to bother everyone, but I'm trying to save colleagues from being 
pointlessly flogged by a PHB.  The PHB in question has assigned some junior 
staffers to find out, and I quote, "The market share of providers in Frame 
Relay and ATM, by state, by provider."  My colleagues have been trying-- 
they even got up the nerve to bother me-- but there doesn't seem to be any 
resource paid or free that can give them this information.

Their desperation is moving enough (there have been some layoffs here) that 
I am willing to bother NANOG with off-topic drivel such as this:

Do any of you know if there is a source out there that has this kind of 
information?  The PHB is willing to pay, so if you know of even a paid 
information source out there, it will suffice.

One proxy that I thought of, although this information is also (apparently) 
not available, would be to know where frame and ATM equipment is 
deployed.  Similar information is available for voice services in COs-- is 
there anything available for frame/ATM like in the voice world?  I'm 
thinking of the various places to get details on what services are offered 
from which COs for voice and DSL-- I think that the (relatively) 
non-tariffed nature of these services means that this would not be available.

If there is no way to get this data, that is fine-- I'd like to know this 
so that I can tell PHB and provide some cover/relief to my colleagues.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the off-topicness,

Allan