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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: People who purchase unproven technologies to support their Business, and whine about it. RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:16:56AM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: > > Joe, > > You have to look at economies of scale. A small to medium sized > business cannot afford to colocate or purchase more reliable bandwidth. > Since their business does not rely on thier line, they can do without more > expensive connection. Second, they may be upgrading from other technologies > such as ISDN or POTS. DSL is far from a reliable technology, yet quite far > from an unreliable technology. I sit on the fence in regrards to its > performance and other characteristics. The work that I have done working > for a CLEC has shown me that a line that works well from the start is likely > to stay up for weeks/months. However, if a small to medium sized business has made the decision to go for a cheap option rather than pay for service and reliability, should they then come whining in inappropriate fora when their connectivity goes down? -- John Payne http://www.sackheads.org/jpayne/ [email protected] http://www.sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 To send me mail, use the address in the From: header
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