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To: Cosmo Daisey who wrote (274)	7/22/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 708

Oh yes, light travels faster on the NEON network, and silently they've nailed down all the major customers, universities, and hospitals in New England, generating a whopping $520K in revenue last quarter (http://www.neoninc.com/news051299.htm). You make it sound like NEON is the Internet2 backbone of New England. Does NEON really beat all other regional fiber-based CLECs and IXCs in "Speed, quality, and bandwidth"? How do you know? They don't make that claim.

To: Cosmo Daisey who wrote (274)	7/22/1999 12:25:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 708

That tells you nothing about the system's scalability. If the next incremental bit mass crashes the system, what is the value to all those mission critical applications like those in hospitals? Say that boundary isn't crossed. How do costs to manage scale assuming the system can handle it? If the company is signing MSAs rapidly, they have no idea about the consequences that weight of traffic will have. This is a nonlinear outcome and it is notoriously disastrous. You aren't appreciating the difficulty of implementing scaled management of WDM under a variably and differentially rising load.