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At 06:43 PM 12/9/1998 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >> I was just saying how you could lower the cost of the ADSL loop from >> around $150 to $30, with both you would need to supply the IP. The idea >> would be that you would not just use the port for internet traffice. You >> would provide voice services, you would provice VOD (video on demand), and >> cable services (using something like I Magic TV). > >Oh yeah, I got that, Nathan. It's just that I get miffed when people >keep going on (don't take this personal) about how cool it is that I >can get my loop down from $300 to $150... when my router port is still >$1800. Nice, yeah, but not what people mean when they blather about >"cheap bandwidth". If it's _that_ cheap, it's running under completely >different assumptions than a standard T-1; viz: cable modems. Um, actually, I think think you can get DSLAM's for about $700 per port or less going by my recent informal surveys. Router ports have been way overpriced for a long time. They were overpriced when an AGS sold for 30K with a stack of ethernet, serial, and an fddi port. Of course, back then the pricing model optimistically expected to sell only a few thousand. They got even more overpriced later, and now expect to sell hundreds of thousands. What I've yet to find out is what sort of latency one gets with a DSL modem as compared to a DSU... I'm not sure DSL is somehow inferior technology (as Bob Metcalfe seems to think from an article several years ago), or if it just represents a (slight) change and a collapse of the fee structure. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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