A few customers can afford this (think banks), but many others can not.
I don't know what you're talking about. I work in infrastructure for a large international bank, and I can tell you that our many hundreds of branches are all still on secured 56 kilobit frame relay circuits, with the exception of DSL "pilot" branches that were installed a few years ago in Qwest's footprint.
Several reasons for this.
1) Vendor management - To get to every branch across our footprint would mean DOZENS of broadband providers... to pay bills to, to get support from, to coordinate with, etc.
2) Equipment costs - Even if we bit the bullet and bought instead of leased, we'd likely need to upgrade the equipment in the not-so-distant future anyways. The frame relays run on the same old equipment, with cheap replacements readily available. (Cheap is relative.)
3) Security - It's a bank stupid, so we can't take a risk at some local telco/ISP being hax0red and us having our data streams compromised. The frame relays are proven secure.
You'll notice that I did not mention bandwidth cost. We've been told that to upgrade our frame relays, currently about $500-$1000 per branch, per month, to 128 megabit frame relay will cost tens of millions of dollars a year. Frac-T1s to each location would only have an increase of 7 million a year, which is swallowable by a corporation of our size, given the benefits over 56k.
So now we are trying to deal with issues 1 through 3 to deploy frac T1s... over the next... 5 years?
But the bandwidth costs are the least of our worries.
Heck, they're clever these FBI chaps, eh?
Yes, we are.
I mean they! *THEY!* Damn.
(I drive a big, dark blue Ford cargo van with tinted windows. My license plate is NOT FBI, and I have 4 antennae attached to the rear and roof.)
Confuses the hell out of people.:)
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A few customers can afford this (think banks), but many others can not.
I don't know what you're talking about. I work in infrastructure for a large international bank, and I can tell you that our many hundreds of branches are all still on secured 56 kilobit frame relay circuits, with the exception of DSL "pilot" branches that were installed a few years ago in Qwest's footprint.
Several reasons for this.
1) Vendor management - To get to every branch across our footprint would mean DOZENS of broadband providers... to pay bills to, to get support from, to coordinate with, etc.
2) Equipment costs - Even if we bit the bullet and bought instead of leased, we'd likely need to upgrade the equipment in the not-so-distant future anyways. The frame relays run on the same old equipment, with cheap replacements readily available. (Cheap is relative.)
3) Security - It's a bank stupid, so we can't take a risk at some local telco/ISP being hax0red and us having our data streams compromised. The frame relays are proven secure.
You'll notice that I did not mention bandwidth cost. We've been told that to upgrade our frame relays, currently about $500-$1000 per branch, per month, to 128 megabit frame relay will cost tens of millions of dollars a year. Frac-T1s to each location would only have an increase of 7 million a year, which is swallowable by a corporation of our size, given the benefits over 56k.
So now we are trying to deal with issues 1 through 3 to deploy frac T1s... over the next... 5 years?
But the bandwidth costs are the least of our worries.
Am I the only one who thinks this interviewing technique is retarded?
You couldn't figure the riddles out either, eh?
Heck, they're clever these FBI chaps, eh? Yes, we are. I mean they! *THEY!* Damn. (I drive a big, dark blue Ford cargo van with tinted windows. My license plate is NOT FBI, and I have 4 antennae attached to the rear and roof.) Confuses the hell out of people. :)