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Re: State Super-DMCA Too True
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:21:06 +0100
Jack Bates wrote:
Please see Saphire worm. Then tell me that an ISP doesn't oversell services. The fact is, the entire Internet is oversold. If everyone did their full capacity, it would crash. DSL is also based on this assumption. Most of the providers selling DSL at the cheap rates are
Er, isn't that the fundamental difference between IP and fixed-bandwidth voice ? I have spent any number of years trying to 'educate' old guard telco management and planners that one of the key economic benefits of the Internet over old fashioned private networks is that the sharing of capacity actully works 99.99% of the time... To many telcos came into this market and sold 'no overbooking' QOS and then wondered why so few bought their overpriced services compared to the new (also going bust now) network operators ? Peter
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- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 30)
- Re[2]: State Super-DMCA Too True Richard Welty (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Tony Rall (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Peter Galbavy (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Stephen Sprunk (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Petri Helenius (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Petri Helenius (Mar 31)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Stephen Sprunk (Mar 31)