18 May
1999
18 May
'99
4:20 a.m.
At 00:01 18/05/99 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
Actually, the cost of undersea capacity is smaller than the cost of land capacity. For all i know, prices are being kept artificially high by parties i don't want to name (they know).
I agree that the prices are high. But as long as they are high, IP QoS and all the other CoS stuff has a valid place on our toolbench. -Hank
(Think cost of rights of way and that digging trenches is not that easy).
--vadim
Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il> wrote:
You are merely showing your geocentricism by saying that bandwidth is essentially free. That may be true in the USA but not in other countries and especially not trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic.