Before 100G, you'd need ten cross connects to move 100G. Now you'd need only one. That's a big drop in revenue.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Butterworth" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:55:57 AM Subject: Re: cross connects and their pound of flesh Dave Temkin <[email protected]> wrote: > And as colo operators get freaked out over margin compression on the > impending 10->100G conversion (which is happening exponentially faster than > 100->1G & 1G->10G) they'll need to move those levers of spend around > regardless. If they've based their model on extracting profit proportional to technology speed then they've misunderstood Moore's law brandon
