Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )
At 06:08 PM 6/2/96 -0400, you wrote:
gee bill, accusing AVI of muck raking? must have been confusing him with me....
i think his question is very relevant......
how bout phrasing it differently? if ameritech, pac bell, mfs, or sprint were initially clueless (greedy?) enough to ask for $60,000 a month I can see why you might like to decline to embarrass the offender.... - *IF* such entity has become more reasonable in the meantime.
so let me rephrase avi's question:
what is the RA paying each NAP owner now?? this should be publicly disclosable since it is paying with federal funds. Right? seems to me the important question is whether anyone is out of line NOW.
Since I've been involved with the NAP project at Pacific Bell, the RA has only been charged for an ATM port ($4,850 mo. flat). There has been no charge for the facilities in which the servers are housed, for reserved rack space, for power, access, whatever... Bill and I have been in discussion about a way to reduce the ATM access fees considerably, and that is merely waiting for some clearance (which I thought would come *much* faster) on my side of the house. Our mission (already accepted, Mr. Phelps) is to reduce the charge to zero. Kind regards, Warren ------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren K. Williams, Director - Network Access Point Pacific Bell Business Communications Services Email: wkwilli@pacbell.com Phone: 510.867.9065 -------------------------------------------------------------------
Since I've been involved with the NAP project at Pacific Bell, the RA has only been charged for an ATM port ($4,850 mo. flat). There has been no charge for the facilities in which the servers are housed, for reserved rack space, for power, access, whatever...
This is correct. --bill
Hey Thanks Warren! Ok - now that we have heard from PAC Bell lets hear from MFS, Sprint and Ameritech as to RA charges. Were waiting guys......... :-) ********************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 phone and fax Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new report: "Tracking Internet Infrastructure" *********************************************************************** On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Bill Manning wrote:
Since I've been involved with the NAP project at Pacific Bell, the RA has only been charged for an ATM port ($4,850 mo. flat). There has been no charge for the facilities in which the servers are housed, for reserved rack space, for power, access, whatever...
This is correct.
--bill
Hey Thanks Warren!
Ok - now that we have heard from PAC Bell lets hear from MFS, Sprint and Ameritech as to RA charges. Were waiting guys......... :-)
Sprint charges about $5700 now for a colocated router w/ FDDI attachment. MAE-East and MAE-West charge in that range (about $5-6k for a FDDI attachment, depending on colo or WAN and switched or shared FDDI). I don't know about PAC Bell. And obviously, I don't know what any of them charge the RA project. Avi
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Avi Freedman -
bmanning＠isi.edu -
Gordon Cook -
Warren Williams