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Date:      Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:15:22 +0100
From:      Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na>
To:        Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net>
Cc:        Jan Knepper <jan@smartsoft.cc>, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Burstable T1
Message-ID:  <3937B36A.8E4DA483@polytechnic.edu.na>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.1000601193746.15041A-100000@lily.ezo.net>

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Jim Flowers wrote:

[...]

> The statistical multiplexing of TDM streams occurs throughout the
> Internet and is one of the reasons for the low cost to reach all the way
> around the world.  Want to pay for a full wired T-1 from here to India?

Actually this is only a small part of why it costs you so little to "reach all the way
around the world". The biggest is that you do not pay anything for the line to India
from the US. The people in India pay for it all.

Tim.



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