Re: 240/4

2007-10-17 Thread Alastair Johnson
Stephen Wilcox wrote: unfortunately i think this is a non-started for all except private deployments the other point as was mentioned later in the thread is that this buys you very little in terms of time before v4 is gone. I can see a reasonable amount of demand for 240/4 with carriers in

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Alastair Johnson
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Some claim that metering is 50% of cost in the telco industry, and I have no reason to doubt that. Staying out of metering saves money on all levels, less complex equipment, less supportcalls, less hassle with billing. I have to agree with this, although the figure

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Alastair Johnson
Mark Newton wrote: Despite the best efforts of some people to run their broadband access at line rate, residential broadband is very much a CIR + burst kind of service. All of our customers can burst to line rate (they're paying for it, so they should be able to get it). None of our

Re: Kenyan Route Hijack

2008-03-16 Thread Alastair Johnson
Kameron Gasso wrote: Christopher Morrow wrote: I think it was Abovenet that blackholed a /24 of (I want to say MAPS, but that's not right) an anti-spam-RBL sometime pre-1999? If I'm not mistaken, that was ORBS. Correct. A particularly interesting case, since ORBS' transit provider was