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Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Mon Aug 16 15:55:47 2004

On Aug 16, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

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.
I submit that the equipment in the network is far, far less important than the people running the equipment. I repeat: "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 do not care what equipment the network uses, as long as my packets get to their destination reliably and quickly. This may or may not place restrictions on the equipment to be used (can you get my packets there "reliably and quickly" on tin-cans-and-string?), and it almost certainly places restrictions on who runs that equipment, but those are the provider's problem, not mine.

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TTFN,
patrick