Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India
I think everyone has pretty much known that the international cable companies are basically cartels -- leaking bandwidth into the market at a rate sufficient enough to keep prices artificially high enough to (at the very least) sustain fiscal margins. This has been going on for years. - fergie -- Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
.. and meanwhile, the best part of 32 STM-1s worth of fiber is lying dark ...
If they lit /all/ of the fibre, don't you think it'll all be used very very quickly? What will they do then? Lay more fibre next year? :) -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
I think everyone has pretty much known that the international cable companies are basically cartels -- leaking bandwidth into the market at a rate sufficient enough to keep prices artificially high enough to (at the very least) sustain fiscal margins.
This has been going on for years.
I completely agree. In fact, I don't like the practice any more than the next person on NANOG. I do, however, like the idea of sustainable growth. I think they should, in the case of the Indian intercontinental fibre fiasco, light up another fibre or two but I don't think lighting them /all/ up right now is a smart move. I think there's really a nasty balance issue and the people who will most complain are the poor end users who end up with shoddy performance and unreliable uplinks. (ObFun: Won't someone please think of the users!) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "You don't have a TV? Then what's <adrian@creative.net.au> all your furniture pointing at?"
On 24-dec-04, at 1:27, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I think they should, in the case of the Indian intercontinental fibre fiasco, light up another fibre or two but I don't think lighting them /all/ up right now is a smart move.
The FLAG FEA only has two pairs. There may be room for more wavelengths, though. http://www.flagtelecom.com/About_Flag/about_networkchart.htm
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