Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote: Do you have any idea what sort of underprovisioning is typical for this sort of service in Japan ? Do they really have anything like a symmetric 100 Mbps all the way back to the backbone ? yep Do you have any reference for this? Provisioning 10G distribution

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Randy Bush
> Do you have any idea what sort of underprovisioning is typical for this > sort of service in Japan ? Do they really have anything like a symmetric > 100 Mbps all the way back to the backbone ? yep randy

RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Malayter, Christopher wrote: I think you're very wrong here. For packet delivery of video based services, I could see a home using 100mb/s between voice, video, and data within the next 12-24 months. All of the product roadmaps I've been looking at contain "How to get 100m

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:23:53 -1000 Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let's say for the sake of argument that by 2010 we want to give every > > household 5 megabit/s on average. How could this be done with technology > > today seen on the radar? Remember that the households should wan

RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Malayter, Christopher
> -Original Message- > From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:55 PM > To: Randy Bush > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit > (france telecom) depeers cogent) > > >

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote: fwiw, 100mb to the home costs about that in japan Well, I dont really see the average home actually using 100meg all the time in the near future, thus my 5 meg utilization average estimate. Access could be whatever speed of course, access speed not used does

RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread jmalcolm
Hannigan, Martin writes: >As long as the hardware can keep up, the amount of glass in spectrum >in the ground should make this an impossibility for the near term, >10 years plus. Fiber isn't useful by itself; there are two obvious things needed to turn a piece of glass into something that can car

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread jmalcolm
Brandon Butterworth writes: >Perhaps they aim to keep driving the competition out of business >to ensure there's a cheap supply of equipment so they can grow >whilst charging so little? There are several problems with such a plan, even were someone to attempt it. One, overall traffic is still gro

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Randy Bush
> Let's say for the sake of argument that by 2010 we want to give every > household 5 megabit/s on average. How could this be done with technology > today seen on the radar? Remember that the households should want to pay > for the bandwidth as well, meaning they might be willing to pay $30 per

RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Hannigan, Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) > depeers cogent) > &g

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Mike Leber wrote: H, router and optical gear capabilities are growing faster than the market. Can you say "permanent state of affairs". Do you have any facts to back up this statement, as I am of another opinion. We're seeing doubling in traffic growth each year and the

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Leber
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mikael Abrahamsson writes: > >So what will people do? Stop selling when their networks are full? Ignore > >the economics and let other business carry the cost of bulk internet? Go > >for cheaper platforms? Go bankrupt (if no other business can carr

Re: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-16 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> I'm sure a few more provider failures > are in the offing - but obviously if the marginal price for bandwith > doesn't pay for the capital costs of expansion, either eventually > bandwidth will be more expensive, or the equipment will be cheaper. Perhaps they aim to keep driving the competition

cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-16 Thread jmalcolm
Mikael Abrahamsson writes: >So what will people do? Stop selling when their networks are full? Ignore >the economics and let other business carry the cost of bulk internet? Go >for cheaper platforms? Go bankrupt (if no other business can carry the >cost) ? This problem will be fixed when the e

cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

2005-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: In general I'd prefer to operate in a healthy marketplace, where all parties are making money, theres little risk of the supplier filing bankrupcty and I am getting reasonable customers service. That can only lead to growth of the industry, healthy b