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That's pretty much the nightmare scenario for the long-haul networks. Frictionless capitalism with buying decision being made by machines, i.e. routers, based on the current state of the network. The product (long haul packet transport) becomes a total commodity with non-existent customer loyalty. Kewl. Dirk On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, David Schwartz wrote: > > I could equally well see a colo center where the plan is to run a > DS3 to the colo center, put a router there, and buy transit from as many > providers as you wanted by connecting to each provider's switch. For > example, a room where Sprint, MCI, BBNPlanet, PSI, Netcom, and whoever > else wanted to come would each have their own Ethernet switch or Gigaswitch. > > ISPs could then colo a router at the center and with no telco loop > cost obtain transit connections from whatever combination of providers > they wished. If the operators of the colo center had their own regional > OC48 sonet ring, the cost to bring a DS3 to the center could be quite low > for both ISPs and the big boys. > > DS > > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Michael Dillon wrote: > > > I guess I was visualizing something quite different from current > > exchanges. Rather than have an Ethernet switch I was thinking of using > > Ethernet point-to-point. And the exchange point was more like a big colo > > center in which you could set up as many private interconnects as you > > want at the lowest possible cost (interface ports plus installing a cable > > versus running T1's or DS3's across town). > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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