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Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:55:17 -0800
Now, if you want to *CLAIM* DS1 speeds but actually deliver something that looks more like an ISDN connection, then its possible.
T1 into a local provider is still T1, though. The main bandwidth consumers hereabouts are HTTP, NNTP, and DNS. All of these are "cacheable" at the local provider, and having T1 access to those data repositories is still quite useful. Not all traffic has to go to the other side of the planet.
But where I come from advertising something you can't deliver is commonly known as fraud.
We just call that "marketing" around here. But your point is valid: this low-cost last-mile service should be described in terms of access to the ISP's local resources (which will therefore have to grow a lot from now). Hell, maybe there's something in this transparent caching idea after all? Nobody in their right mind would sell T1 to every customer and do 1000:1 overcommit of their transit links without some kind of bandwidth shaping. Since that shaping is part of the engineering plan, the marketroids will have to find some way to come clean about it in the advertising glossies.
Current thread:
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Jim Shankland (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Paul J. Zawada (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Karl Denninger (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Paul A Vixie (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Karl Denninger (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Paul A Vixie (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Karl Denninger (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Eric M. Carroll (Jan 26)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Karl Denninger (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Stephen Balbach (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Martin Hannigan (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Greg Simpson (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Paul J. Zawada (Jan 23)
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- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 23)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access M. David Leonard (Jan 23)
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- Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 23)