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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BBN/GTEI
What this is clearly illustrating is that dialup customers are not as profitable as they used to be, and that web hosting and dedicated service are very profitable. Let's propose for a minute that Exodus is so unhappy about losing BBN connectivity that they buy transit to get to BBN from a third party (clearly they're not going to buy it directly from BBN). They enter in to a contract for transit to BBN via a third party, UUNet as an example. They run a local fddi (or whatever) to a UUNet router which then dumps the traffic the fastest way possible. UUNet then scores a little bit of money for the trouble, and BBN gets nothing except more traffic to run coast to coast. Now what are they going to do? Dump UUNet too? Please. BBN should either find a way of making dialup profitable or get in to other lines of service. Trying to extort money from peers is a ludicrous waste of time. Austin
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