[SCFN] why is T1 worth so much for 1.5 MBPS ?

[Charles Wyble]

See 
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/broadband/new-edge-networks-providing-mpls-service-over-dsl-t1-and-evdo.html 
for an interesting player in this space.


Also AT&T has an offering where you core office can have a T1 coming in, 
and your branch offices can be DSL/MPLS.



green bean wrote:
> T1 is 1.5 MBPS both up and down. Typical price for T1 is $250/month afaik.
> DSL extreme charges me $30/month for 3 meg down, maybe 50 KBPS up.
> Cox cable charges $42/month for 6 meg down, i cant remember its uplink 
> speed.
> T1 bandwidth would seem - based on the above numbers -
> to be slower than both dsl and cable in downlink speed, but faster as an 
> uplink.
> Why is T1 worth so much more than cable isp or dsl?
> Symmetric speed up and down? QOS ?
> 
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