[geeks] Wow

[Fogg, James]

<James reiterates his suspicion of SMDS> 
I still bet its SMDS to the end user, which sucks as much a frame.
</James>

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Joshua D Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
~ Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:06 AM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Wow
~ 
~ 
~ On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 08:03:41AM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
~ 
~ >> http://www.cogentco.com/Essentials/about.html
~ 
~ >> Anyone here of this before?  They claim to offer 100mbps 
~ internet link for
~ >> $1k.  
~ 
~ > Evidently their business model isn't terribly sound; I used 
~ to know quite a
~ > few folks who worked there, but who were let go a few months back.
~ 
~ > They are basically running an OC-192 on fibre to your 
~ building. Don't ask me
~ > how they manage to make money on $1000 a month, because I 
~ don't know.
~ 
~ Why an OC-192.  Wouldn't an OC-3 be good enough for 100mbps?
~ 
~ -- 
~ Joshua D. Boyd
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