On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Something of interest here might be centralising services at NAPs. For example, putting a news server at the NAP running Cylone, the NAP purchasing a news only T1 (or whatever) to serve the box, and then participants who would like a news feed getting it directly from this box and paying extra.
I went one step further and talked to some of the local ISPs about pooling some $ and having a NAP-owned nnrp server. Why waste bandwidth and hardware duplicating a beast such as usenet servers if its not necessary. The ones I talked to agreed it seemed a good idea, but nothing ever came of it.
Just out of curiousity, since I'm not in the US, how much would a T1 cost point to point inside a city, without default IP transit? With IP transit?
In BellSouth land, I know a local point to point T1 circuit can be had for about $300/month ($1700 install). With CLEC's getting into the business of selling circuits (especially if they have their own fiber) prices can be whatever they want to charge...usually less than the ILEC :) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Spammers will be winnuked or Network Administrator | drawn and quartered...whichever Florida Digital Turnpike | is more convenient. ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____