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From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 96 11:30:13 GMT
Organization: Dragonhill Systems Ltd
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In article <Pine.3.91.960702173600.672C-100000@hammerhead.cs.odu.edu>
           bowden@cs.odu.edu "Jamie Bowden" writes:

> On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
> 
> > Ahem.  Demon have installed a 45Mb/s transatlantic link, which is
> > currently being tested, and scheduled to enter service within the next
> > fortnight.  Note that the capacity of this link, which costs Demon some
> > hundreds of pounds *per hour* is the same as MCI's current
> > transcontinental backbone.  A very large number of Demon's customers use
> 
> Sorry to disappoint, but MCI has 155mbit backbone from coast to coast 
> these days.  I had losses in connectivity several times during the 
> upgrade process, but the end result was worth it.
> 
> Jamie
> 
> I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.

You must indeed have it!  I'd read that MCI were in the process of
upgrading their backbone from 45 to 155; I hadn't realized that they'd
done it already.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                       "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"    
                                                          --  Samuel Johnson