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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: florida ix(en) facing south
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote: >We try > to be very flexible to the point that we are location independant, but there > are probably some economic realities which will set in soone or later. And here is the key sentence in the first two paragraphs. :) > The Florida-MIX is designed to provide several different ways of connecting to > the NAP, and I am not aware of any restrictions which tie you to a particular > carrier. Of course, there are probably some economic realities which will set in sooner or later. :-) > > I understand (and since I wasn't born into this company, I also share) some of > the feelings and reservations against RBOCs. However, I think in > BellSouth.net's defence, there are several fine IP geeks working on this > project, and a lot of brains and effort spent on worrying about how to make > this successful and we're trying our very best to do this right I have no doubt of that, but in the end, these things have to pay for themselves. Many projects start out with incredibly open-minded people working on a great project, but in order to shake things out on the bottom line, bean-counters and MBA's eventually brush some (or a lot) of that aside to address the "economic realities." Forgive me if I'm sounding skeptical, but none of us are here to lose money. -- Douglas A. Dever [email protected] Network Engineering Manager Verio - http://www.verio.net
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