cross connects and their pound of flesh

Sun Jun 19 14:07:27 UTC 2016

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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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest Internet Exchange 
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----- Original Message -----

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 

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. 

If they've based their model on extracting profit proportional 
to technology speed then they've misunderstood Moore's law 

brandon 