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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: connectivity outside the US
[email protected] (Sean M. Doran) wrote: > Examining this a bit more closely, since undersea capacity is > terribly expensive, when there is adequate capacity available > to a large aggregate of sites people want to get to, there will > be an obvious market for access to that capacity. Actually, i do not understand why undersea capacity is so expensive. Cable is more expensive, yes; but the paths are much straighter, and there's no need to purchase rights of ways (except for shore-side strips). There's no need to dig trenches -- you just drop the cable off the boat. I guess the real problem with undersea capacity is more in the fact that it was always considered a low-volume service (which it is, in terms of voice traffic); so there's no many competitive providers, and small-quantity pricing. --vadim
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