Quoting Rick Engebretson (eng at pinenet.com): > How are all these little business clusters configured ?? A shared T1 or > SONET (eg. frame relay) seems like a natural building service: just like > water, sewer, power, and heat. With all the new top level domains there > should be a huge increase in web site need. > > People want to control their access. Dedicated T1 access is overkill in > hardware for most. The utilities role should be limited to maintaining > the wiring. Web hosting is also an imposed service layer. Frame relay is > the economical way to grow a network. It's the American way. More, more, more. You'd be surprised what many business -think- they need. They all want point-to-point so they know the cir is the best they can get. Using frame, they might not get the bandwidth they "need". -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9