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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: > What do you care which routers they use? I've seen networks buy the > most expensive routers and run a crappy network, and I've seen people > run stable networks on the cheap. > I just want my bits to flow quickly and reliably. I don't really care > if you do it on Juniper, Force10, cisco, or tin-cans-and-string. Well, with the GSR (and alike) you're paying for high MTBF, large buffers and quick re-routing when something happens, so yes, this is a quality issue and that's why you should care and make an informed decision. Though I do agree with you that current internet connectivity is becoming more of a bulk packet forwarding service with questionable SLAs, and that's what people are willing to pay for, not the premium service. Good enough, I think it's called. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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