Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 00:53:18 -0400 (EDT) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Mikael Hugo <mikael.hugo@dataphone.net> Cc: "'Jawaid Bazyar'" <bazyar@hypermall.com>, linuxisp@friendly.jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu Subject: RE: US West and RADSL (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980607004339.2687A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <E1DFDD6A058ED111BA4100E0290BC51F046B27@niagara.int.sesol.dataphone.net>
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On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Mikael Hugo wrote: > We hope to maintain only the one megapop, or a couple of strategic > superpops. Isent that a way to do it in the US? In that way you wont > have to buy DSLAMs all over the place. *Someone* has to have DSLAMs all over the place, either you or the telco. DSL is limited in range, so there's now way to backhaul copper all the way to a MegaPOP... Personally, I *know* we can't afford to put a DSLAM in every CO in Manhattan and all the other boroughs. That's a ton of cash. The idea of the telco swallowing the cost is appealing to me. Between the cost of the DSLAMs and the cost of hauling all that bandwidth around (I would venture that more than a T1 would be needed or you're seriously doing a disservice to your customers) you could quickly go broke. Buying a single big pipe seems economical if you've got the customers. In smaller locales, I feel it's worthwhile to go with your own equipment and file all the paperwork to be a CLEC. You could even get a competitive edge in areas where the incumbent telco is using ADSL at 640K/1.54M/7.1M down and 90K/640K up. If you offered a more symmetric service you could position yourself to obtain more business customers that may want to host services on the line. Let's also not forget the more creative CLECs out there. XCOM (www.xcom.com) is a CLEC that currently sells ISDN/POTS ports to ISPs. You just provision bandwidth to them and give them a radius server to point at. They have some very interesting technology that bypasses the need for all those 5Es. And in NYC, they will be doing the same with DSL. Now that they've been bought by Level 3, they have the cash. Don't doubt the power of competition... I think the CLECs will fair well and hopefully keep up their relationships with local ISPs. Charles > > Regards > > Mikael Hugo > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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