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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [nanog] Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
On Sat, Jan 24, 1998 at 04:09:49PM -0000, John R. Levine wrote: > >The only thing I can figure is that the morons in question are going to > >quote, for legal purposes, "peak" or "burst" bandwidth, ... > > Well, sure. > > Let's have a show of hands: today, who gets 53Kbits/sec throughput on > an X56 dialup? Who gets 1.544Mbit/sec throughput on a T1? Hmmn, > looks pretty quiet out there. > > Everyone's overcommitted, nobody can provide full pipe bandwidth on the > connections they're selling now. This isn't news. yes, but those people aren't usually selling a wide enough hose to make it useful for resale or server operation, which the ADSL stuff _will_. It's a different target audience, because of that, and I don't think they get it. > I suspect that the real market for xDSL will be as much telecommuting > as web surfing, and so long as the telecommuters have a fast enough > connection to the office which will probably not be very far away, > that's all they care about. _I_ think it will be "personal printing presses", as much as anything else. But I've been wrong before. Course, I've been _right_ before, too... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.org
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