On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 bmanning@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. -- --bill