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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote: > Brett writes: > > considered, isn't really needed. Rather than waste their money on equipment > > that all in all just doesn't need to be there, why not make it more economic > > for local players to get involved and cross connect to eachother. In the end > That means with 19 ISP's in a GIGAswitch-free room, there are 342 FIP's at > a cost of, what, US$12000 each after discount? I'll betcha I can buy quite > a few GIGAswitches for US$4.1M. Oops, that's not a fair comparison, since > with a GIGAswitch I also need 19 FIP's. Figure that a fully configured > GIGAswitch retails without discount for US$80K and that 19 FIPs are going > to run another US$228K. That's still a *lot* less than 2*sum(n-1). This is probably a worst-case scenario. What about Ethernet cross-connects using the 6 port cards? Or zero-mile T1's using the 8 port serial cards? And you are assuming a full mesh which isn't necessarily what people need. I don't think you can generalize about what a provider wants from an Exchange Point especially not in a world in which exchange points are breeding like rabbits. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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