Steve,
Thanks for correcting me.
Please halve the figures I posted.
Motlink, just because they have the capacity on the IXC fibre doesn't mean they have the switches to route the calls from. Still figure that you need switching capacity to handle 70,000 ports (ie, possibly 7 switches capable of 10,000 ports each - total: $10-20M).
And on the subject of IXC, there was never an official answer as to how much capacity they were actually supplying. I think Joe Medsker was following up on that one. Still, at 70,000 ports required to reach $1B in revenue, you would need over 2,000 E1s (32 ports per E1) to handle the kind of traffic that will make that kind of revenues.
Remember, figure $150 per port on this.
Oh, btw, when I speak of 70K ports, that is just inter machine trunking. These are the circuits that link two long distance switches together. I have not figured in access ports, this would be the links between the long distance switch and the local exchange (ie, more money).
Let's keep this discussion up!
Brian
one more thing, by no means am I trying to be negative. I am trying to point out that we have a lot of good this to look forward to and the cost that is required to bring in such a large figure of revs. |
