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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (118)10/27/1999 11:38:00 AM
From: Stephen L  Respond to of 1782
 
In a slightly different guise, wasn't this debate raged on the ATHM thread over open access. As long as the "public" bandwidth is insufficient to accommodate e- commerce needs wrt speed and QoS (it kills me use that term), then private alternative will thrive. And in a free market economy this could be a permanent transition to a private web. Initially these may be quite separate networks of glass (LVLT, GBLX, MFNX etc)with affiliated or separate ISP/service providers (ABOV,EXDS etc). But Metcalf's law (value = F(n**2)) and the demands from ever more sophisticated B2B clients should encourage the peering agreements to preserve the ubiquity of net access; albeit at a cost to both the virtual business tenants and their clients. So with private initiates flourishing (Telecos, ISP services etc) you are expecting an even more rapid deployment of bandwidth and proliferation of the e-economy. Right????

It is fun to speculate,
Steve



To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (118)10/27/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Glenn  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1782
 
I see many of the e-commerce sites using data services which include private backbones. This yields consistantly low response times across the country. I can give you references to the some of the companies and which web sites they host if you need. The list includes AMZN EBAY etc. Exodus Communications is an example I think of what you are describing.
Smiles,
Glenn


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