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David Greenman writes:
>>How much WC paid for connectivity?
>
>   I don't know what you mean - the cost of connectivity to BBN Planet or
>the cost of the new service? In both cases it is part of a package deal that
>includes 100Mbps co-location service for wcarchive - which is the majority of
>the cost. The new service is costing about $10K/month total.

Cheap. My university paid for a 1.9MBit/s link 220,000 DM for bandwitdh and
~80,000 DM for traffic, that is $17K/month.

A commercial ISDN 2Mbps link in germany cost $60K/month.

Wolfram