I don't buy this. They sold you one cable before, they sell you cable now. Little difference then we moved customers from a T1 to T3 back in the 90's. If Colo's can't understand more then 20+ yrs of evolution its hardly right to blame it on the market. -jim Mimir Networks www.mimirnetworks.com On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
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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From: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk> To: bross@pobox.com, dave@temk.in Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:55:57 AM Subject: Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh
And as colo operators get freaked out over margin compression on the impending 10->100G conversion (which is happening exponentially faster
Dave Temkin <dave@temk.in> wrote: 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