Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : NOPT: Northeast Optic Network, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MangoBoy who wrote (273)	7/22/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Cosmo Daisey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 708

Mark, The major customers in New England and all the large Universities including the ones that operate internet hubs are using NEON. The major hospitals are also using NEON for picture quality transmission. Speed, quality, and bandwidth on the NEON system is unequaled by any other system. cdaiseyPhD@gilders-cousin.com

To: MangoBoy who wrote (273)	7/22/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 708

I can't see where allocation of bandwidth under an organized QoS will provide added value for a leasing model. Certainly you can get a higher lease rate for each higher constituent throughput, but higher throughput also carries both higher costs and incrementally higher hidden costs on each higher cost especially in a circumstance of a new system whose bugs still creep up the line. This company must guarantee stability of transmission. That is never going to be fully achievable under a WDM technology. It's too complicated and that means with every MSA signed the difficulty of management goes up exponentially with number of MSAa and QoS combinations provided under the MSA. When you light that fiber you find out how intractable WDM is.