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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: The DSL business model
There is a simple solution for redundancy - buy redundant T-1 lines, run BGP, route a large enough block of space to be globally routable. This is like complaining that you can only get a Yugo for $8K instead of a Porche. You want the Porche, pay the cash. You want to spend $50 a month for DSL, live with the limitations of the technology and the product offering. Providers can't afford to provide DSL for the current $$$, with the present services. T-1's are cheap these days, compared to a few years back. - Daniel Golding > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Christopher A. Woodfield > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:23 PM > To: Roeland Meyer > Cc: 'Steve Sobol'; Steve Schaefer; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: The DSL business model > > > > Not to mention that if you're looking to do BGP, most providers won't > think of letting you run BGP over anything that's not at least a T1. When > I was at Intermedia, we didn't even let customer do BGP over > frame relay - > they had to have a fractional T1 service at minimum. > > -C > > > The technology that can be faulted, and I sincerely apologize > for not being > > clear enough on this, is that which prevents adequate redundancy at the > > end-nodes. The fact that 100,000 businesses can get lopped off > by a single > > provider business failure is pretty sad. I've tried, for over a > year, to get > > redundant uplinks to an alternate provider (ISDN backup to xDSL). CIDR, > > prefix filtering, and cluelessness nail that effort every time. > It doesn't > > seem to matter that I am more than willing to pay for it. It > simply isn't > > available. But, it should be (I don't mean tinker-toy methods either). > > Before CIDR, it was. The past few quarters has shown how > necessary it is. > > Guys, this is a huge market gap, why isn't anyone filling it? > > > > -- > > ROELAND M.J. MEYER > > Managing Director > > Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc. > > TEL: +001 925 373 3954 > > FAX: +001 925 373 9781 > > http://www.mhsc.com > > mailto: [email protected] > > > > -- > --------------------------- > Christopher A. Woodfield [email protected] > > PGP Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB887618B
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