From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 27 2:35:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E0515513 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 02:35:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@polytechnic.edu.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=polytechnic.edu.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 12DoB9-00028B-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:37:39 -0200 Message-ID: <38901F98.7CC2FB46@polytechnic.edu.na> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:36:09 +0200 From: Tim Priebe Reply-To: tim@polytechnic.edu.na Organization: Polytechnic of Namibia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Berland , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Colocation bandwidthcost predictions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Larry Berland wrote: > I'm looking for some information on cost of bandiwdth in a colo situation, > especially predictions of future costs in 5-10 years as well as near term > (1-4 years). If anyone has such information or knows of a place where I > can get it, please let me know > > > Thanks in advance, > Laurence We are working in an exponential growth industry, that growth rate will not continue forever, but to predict prices for 5-10 years from now is nothing but pure speculation, and is likely to be off by orders of magnitude. For 1-4 years be conservative, assume the prices will remain the same. You will still need to review your budget regularly. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message