29 Sep
1996
29 Sep
'96
7:13 p.m.
What, providers not wanting to toast their backbone? When you are connected to every major exchange and have a huge DS3 network, it cost big bucks. We are building a small network and will be spending about $250K a month on telco. Why should someone be able to just pay MFS $5700 a month and make everybody transit bandwidth to him at just MAE-East?
I think Peter G's original point was that they are spending $8m/yr (L5m/yr) connecting to just MAE-East. I'm not sure I agree with Peter that constructing a network beyond that in the US is entirely redundant, but it is surely illogical to class an $8m network in the same category as just a $5700 network. Alex Bligh Xara Networks