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Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?
- From: Daniel Senie
- Date: Sat May 15 00:21:42 2004
At 06:04 PM 5/14/2004, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote:
Well - you could, to save costs, put a T3 (or multiple T3's) into a
specific area that you want to serve and then distribute it from there via
Ethernet. This is what we're currently doing with a residential/commercial
building.
Ah, so you're only talking about inner city applications. Given I live in
an area of single family homes, in a town whose primary industry is
agriculture (apple orchards). When I think about serving residential users,
I've got a very different set of circumstances in mind.
The colo model doesn't work outside urban areas.
-- Jonathan
Daniel Senie wrote:
At 05:22 PM 5/14/2004, you wrote:
Hello Fellow NANOG'ers,
I was just thinking about this - tell me if it sounds reasonable? The
company that I work for developed a piece of technology which, through
rate-limit statements, allow customers to buy/sell bandwidth "on
demand". Now, I was thinking: "Why can't we take this technology that
we've tested successfully in a colo environment and adapt it a little
bit for personal/buisness-class ISP's to allow them to bill for the
bandwidth that a customer uses, and only that with the exception of a
base monthly fee (to cover the DSL/T1 loop, e-mail services, support,
etc.) of a few dollars.
The access line (T-1, etc.) loop charge is substantially larger than the
bandwidth charge. Get the phone companies to price the lines better, and
it might make sense.
Personally, I would like to see a senario where everyone just pays for
what they use - it would be a much better system for allowing people who
don't neccessarily need to get on the Internet at high-speed, get on
high-speed which will not only increase revenue for the ISP's, but also
for the customer who can now use DSL/T1 access in a much more effective way.
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
-- Jonathan
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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
[email protected]
1-866-MERKATO (USA)
1-812-355-5908 (Intl)
<http://www.invisiblehand.net>
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Jonathan M. Slivko
Network Operations Center
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc.
[email protected]
1-866-MERKATO (USA)
1-812-355-5908 (Intl)
<http://www.invisiblehand.net>
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