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Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU)
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someone with a lot more time than i do writes.......

>
>I'll briefly put my UUNET hat on, the one that I've worn when I was
>directly involved the design, specification and recommendation of
>hardware selections of well in excess of $10M last year.

this is frightning...... :-) and whats the new version of the old adage 

"no-one ever got fired for recommending Cisco (IBM)" 

Most guys like you arent willing to put your ass on the line to save your
company a few bucks and i cant say i blame you.....but remember, its a 
lot easier being an employee than an owner; its easy to spend someone 
elses money. I used to recommend Proteons (back when Cisco was 
making boxes with vacuum cleaner blowers) at Nynex and Im sure they
use ciscos now, but they're too stupid to use unix or PCs, and most small
ISPs arent.

>Consider that you have many, many unmanned POP locations, all over the
>planet.  These are generally co-located in telephone central offices
>which are not manned 24x7.  We colocate in interexchange carrier
>central offices for a variety of reasons, including cost (you don't
>need to purchase $5000/mo local loops on each of your DS3 trunks).
>There is also good environmental conditions and power available in the
>form of -48V DC power plants that run all of the telco transmission
>stuff.
[snipped in the name of bandwidth]

you've made a good point for backbone routers, but what about the
other 95% of the world?

dennis