From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 10 15:50:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA21223 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zola.trend1.com (obrien@zola.trend1.com [205.160.113.89]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21125 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 15:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by zola.trend1.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA11043; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 18:33:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 18:33:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew O'Brien" To: Tony Kimball cc: marpat@kmtnet.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, linuxisp@lightning.com Subject: Re: [Linux-ISP] T1 offc. resell config In-Reply-To: <199609101821.NAA06897@compound.Think.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How do you provide ethernet drops? On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Mark Patterson on Tue, 10 September: > : > : What equip. do i use to break up our T1 into resellable portions for > : potential clients ranging in need from 56kb - 128kb and above? > > The cheapest thing for you to do is to sell ethernet drops. > Moreover, it is very desirable from your client's perspective > because they do not need a sync or isdn router, and they can > take advantage of surplus available bandwidth. What you sell > is not a fixed increment, but either a guaranteed minimum available > bandwidth (using a bandwidth limiting router) or a statistical > guarantee. In this way you can charge a premium price (due to > superiority of service) while incurring lesser infrastructural > costs than competing services. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To [un]subscribe to this list, contact linuxisp-request@lightning.com > Please send contributions for the mailing list to: linuxisp@lightning.com > Please contact the mailing-list-owner as: linuxisp-owner@lightning.com >