Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers

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In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said:

> From: Stephen Griffin [mailto:stephen.griffin@rcn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:18 PM
>
> In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said:
> <snip>
> > My latest quote for a new DSL connection is 42 days. T1s
> are 6-8 weeks.
> > Bigger pipes are 2-6 months for the fastest response, many
> cases are longer.
> >
> > Back to business failures, the DSL world is looking rocky
> at best. Rythms
> > isn't looking very solid and neither is Covad. Some of the
> NorthPoint
> > customers are not going with either, electing to go with
> the local RBOC
> > instead (despite the hassles and long lead-times). What
> many businesses
> > really need is true multi-homing.
> <snip>
>
> So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to
> multihome.
> You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL,
> which just
> isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".

You can think that way all you want to, right up to the time when your local
RBOC decides it will no longer serve you. At which time, good luck shoving
those bytes down the wire.

I may be stupid or something, but the above doesn't appear to make the
least bit of sense. Do you have data that the RBOCs and CLECs are moving
out of the circuit (DS0 on up) delivery business?

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Yo Stephen!

> You can think that way all you want to, right up to the time when your local
> RBOC decides it will no longer serve you. At which time, good luck shoving
> those bytes down the wire.

I may be stupid or something, but the above doesn't appear to make the
least bit of sense. Do you have data that the RBOCs and CLECs are moving
out of the circuit (DS0 on up) delivery business?

Yep, at least temporarily. Usually happens late at night when they
"groom" the lines. Or sometimes in the day when an installer hears
no dial-tone and grabs your T1 pairs. Or when a tech misreads a circuit
ID and kills the wrong customer. Or another case where a bumbling
tech brushed against the dip switches on the CSU/DSU. And....
[fill in your own horror story here]

If these things have never happened to you then you have not been in
this business very long.

RGDS
GARY