I don't buy this. They sold you one cable before, they sell you cable now. Little difference then we moved customers from a T1 to T3 back in the 90's. If Colo's can't understand more then 20+ yrs of evolution its hardly right to blame it on the market.
-jim Mimir Networks www.mimirnetworks.com On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > Before 100G, you'd need ten cross connects to move 100G. Now you'd need > only one. That's a big drop in revenue. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brandon Butterworth" <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> > To: br...@pobox.com, d...@temk.in > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:55:57 AM > Subject: Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh > > Dave Temkin <d...@temk.in> wrote: > > And as colo operators get freaked out over margin compression on the > > impending 10->100G conversion (which is happening exponentially faster > than > > 100->1G & 1G->10G) they'll need to move those levers of spend around > > regardless. > > If they've based their model on extracting profit proportional > to technology speed then they've misunderstood Moore's law > > brandon > >