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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: ny.nysernet,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Ithaca POP for PSI needs PEP : -)
Message-ID: <_F1C1F7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:36:55 GMT
References: <1CE00001.ij05gb@tbomb.ice.com> <1991Jun19.175922.8524@uu.psi.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Jun19.175922.8524@uu.psi.com> schoff@uu.psi.com (Martin Schoffstall) writes:
> If the ONLY consideration is marketing into an installed base of
> UUCP'ers than I would concur with you.

I wouldn't say it's your only consideration, but I can't see why it shouldn't
be *a* consideration. That's who your original customers were, after all.

> - price/performance
> - professional high quality rack mount modem issues (vs standalone)
> - PEP latency
> - SLIP/PPP market
> - mass market availability of V.32
> - rapidly developing new markets for "electronic mail" and other things

On the other hand, you have:

  - Installed Base
  - UUCP spoofing
  - "poor" exchanges (for example, Sugarland Telephone)
  - PBXes

What would be your cost for transferring *one* TB on Houston?
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"