Re: [TCLUG:11742] mirror @ cs.umn.edu

[Thomas Veldhouse <veldy@visi.com>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Scott Dier - dieman wrote:

> Do you know the capitol equipment costs to do that for mediaone?  there is
> not local isp other than onvoy that has the chance to support them in the
> future.
> 
> Visi might, but they probally wouldn't take em anyhow because of the
> bandwidth suckage.  So its either A) deal with onvoy, or b) buy a ton of
> stuff and get connections with 3 tier1 providers.
> 
> Both are near impossible, because mediaone would be put on "the list"
> below onvoy and would only end up with the needed bandwidth later.
> 
Actually, I recall hearing that eventually, they do want to get their own
pipes to the backbone.  Only thing that would be cost effective I would
think, with their bandwidth requirements.  This is unsubstantiated though.
MediaOne is moving to their own dial-ups for the one way modems - and
their new DNS is on a totally new subnet (through BBN Planet?).  I am not
aware if these changes are affiliated with Onvoy or not.

We shall see.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com