Randy Do you have any Idea of the cost of a T3 from overseas to the US? (or even the cost of a local loop T3 outside the US) Hint: A T3 from Tel-Aviv to Chicago NAP is 6 figures (US$) a _month_ And this is after de-regulation dropped the price of a fiber link to under satellite link price(2-3 years ago a fiber terrestrial link was ~ 3 times a satellite link with an minimum RTT of ~ 550 msec ;-( ) -- Rafi Sadowsky rafi@oumail.openu.ac.il Network/System/Security VoiceMail: +972-3-646-0592 FAX: +972-3-646-0454 Mangler ( :-) | FIRST-REP for ILAN-CERT(CERT@CERT.AC.IL) Open University of Israel | (PGP key -> ) http://telem.openu.ac.il/~rafi On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
the point of 2xDS3 was specifically to get major services, and not to get every basement dual-homer. do the latter and you have the same grazing of the commons as we have today.
randy