On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
We try to be very flexible to the point that we are location independant, but there are probably some economic realities which will set in soone or later.
And here is the key sentence in the first two paragraphs. :)
The Florida-MIX is designed to provide several different ways of connecting to the NAP, and I am not aware of any restrictions which tie you to a particular carrier.
Of course, there are probably some economic realities which will set in sooner or later. :-)
I understand (and since I wasn't born into this company, I also share) some of the feelings and reservations against RBOCs. However, I think in BellSouth.net's defence, there are several fine IP geeks working on this project, and a lot of brains and effort spent on worrying about how to make this successful and we're trying our very best to do this right
I have no doubt of that, but in the end, these things have to pay for themselves. Many projects start out with incredibly open-minded people working on a great project, but in order to shake things out on the bottom line, bean-counters and MBA's eventually brush some (or a lot) of that aside to address the "economic realities." Forgive me if I'm sounding skeptical, but none of us are here to lose money. -- Douglas A. Dever dever@verio.net Network Engineering Manager Verio - http://www.verio.net