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Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers


From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin () rcn com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:34:37 -0400 (EDT)


In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said:
From: Stephen Griffin [mailto:stephen.griffin () rcn com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:18 PM

In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said:
<snip>
My latest quote for a new DSL connection is 42 days. T1s 
are 6-8 weeks.
Bigger pipes are 2-6 months for the fastest response, many 
cases are longer.

Back to business failures, the DSL world is looking rocky 
at best. Rythms
isn't looking very solid and neither is Covad. Some of the 
NorthPoint
customers are not going with either, electing to go with 
the local RBOC
instead (despite the hassles and long lead-times). What 
many businesses
really need is true multi-homing.
<snip>

So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to 
multihome.
You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL, 
which just
isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".

You can think that way all you want to, right up to the time when your local
RBOC decides it will no longer serve you. At which time, good luck shoving
those bytes down the wire.

I may be stupid or something, but the above doesn't appear to make the
least bit of sense. Do you have data that the RBOCs and CLECs are moving
out of the circuit (DS0 on up) delivery business?



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