Dorian writes: So if you follow that train of thought, building a private net for "important/meritorious" traffic makes some amount of sense. Cook: who chooses to define what is meritorious/important?
From what I understand Internet II will be brought to us by IBM using ATT bit pipes. The vBNS is a $50 million NSF investment in MCI. I *DO* wonder how synergy between the efforts is to be achieved?
Ironically I understand that it is MCI measured usage charging on DS-3s that has increased the cost of this bandwidth to universities by 300 to 400 per cent over what they had been paying that is increasing their anguish. Bill manning adds: When will MCI/Sprint/WorldCom/ATT provide cost effective, clear channel OC48 pipes? Cook: when hell freezes over is my guess. ************************************************************************ The COOK Report on Internet For subsc. pricing & more than 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA ten megabytes of free material (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) visit http://pobox.com/cook/ Internet: cook@cookreport.com For case study of MercerNet & TIIAP induced harm to local community http://pobox.com/cook/mercernet.html ************************************************************************