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Started by Michael Dillon
Sat, 02 May 1998 00:00
Re: Clinton ratifies Illegal Internet Tax - bad day for US high speed
Author: Michael Dillon
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Gordon Cook wrote: > When CANADA is going with an all optical and zero SONET research > network, the press should be well advised to ask Doug van Howelling why > Abeline is starting off SONET? The only answer that occurs to me is that > Abeline wants federally subsidized reliable high bandwitdh for university > PRODUCTION USES. In the meantime the ultimate irony is that the 30% DNS > surcharge helps fund plain vanilla high speed university connections while > CANARIE does the all optical network which the US lacks the leadership to > do. Canada has usually been ahead of the USA in telecommunications but I wouldn't let that worry you. Within a year or two American companies are either buying the stuff from Canadian companies or else duplicating it with their own gear. > Poor precedent! And the US makes the wrong network > research choices by banking on expensive SONET and leaving CANARIE to > develop first SONETless net using TCP/IP over WDM...... No doubt there are some US companies closely following the CANARIE deployment and ready to pounce on the idea as soon as it is proven in the field. Relax, it's not like Canada is Iraq's largest trading partner or anything. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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