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From: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>
Sad as we all know the main cost for 1g to a site is in the optics (well actually the fiber build... But after that, it costs almost nothing to light it at 1g). A pair of 20km optics is about $250.
I see that assertion a lot, and I want to correct it. The major cost, MRC, is *the router port*; I don't know what the 95%ile BW for a major hotel is going to be over a month, but I suspect that you're gonna need the whole 1Gb/s worth of port to handle the peaks. And those aren't exactly cheap -- though, by "daily commercial hotel revenue" standards, I suppose they're not *that* expensive; what kind of margins do hotels make? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274