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Could we have 4000 10 people companies provide Internet connectivity to
the majority of US business within a couple of years? At $80-200/month for
a T1? This is what "they" are trying to avoid/slow down.

I am not sure how you can come to thus conclusion. Where do you think
the 4000 10 person businesses are getting their connectivity from? I do
not see them forming their own connectivity to each other. There is a
need for large providers as well, and they need your business.

Jonathan

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I agree, there is a need for long-haul providers. But they also don't have
to be that big. 20-30 people companies with an annual gross of, say 10
million, would probably do it. All they need is a T3/OC3/OC12 nation wide
mesh which is expensive, but not that expensive. Plus peering arangements.

Try selling a third T3 to a local ISP with 100 T1 clients and two T3s to
larger networks. The local ISP will most likely talk about pricing plus
how hop-counts can be reduced for his customers. Pricing being the more
important factor at this point.

Dirk

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Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote:

  I agree, there is a need for long-haul providers. But they also
  don't have
  to be that big. 20-30 people companies with an annual gross of, say
  10
  million, would probably do it. All they need is a T3/OC3/OC12 nation
  wide
  mesh which is expensive, but not that expensive. Plus peering
  arangements.

  Try selling a third T3 to a local ISP with 100 T1 clients and two
  T3s to
  larger networks. The local ISP will most likely talk about pricing
  plus
  how hop-counts can be reduced for his customers. Pricing being the
  more
  important factor at this point.

  Dirk

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Dirk,

You are showing a lack of knowledge about the real costs of long haul
networking. Economies of scale do not even begin to come into play
until the revenue
hits $50 million or so given the need for a network that is not sparsely
connected or
under provisoned in the backbone. This is the reality. There is a
definitive place for the "big boys"
as transit aggregators of bandwidth. Without them our collective costs
would skyrocket.

Mike Gaddis
Savvis Communications