[Asterisk-Users] Pricing for DS3000P

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 08:22 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> I think you'll find that for most dialup applications, 10:1 is about right 
> when you've got a large number of channels, even according to the erlang 
> calculations.

I dont know about other countries, but in 1997 I worked at an ISP.  The
iunternet was popular enough then and dialup was $20/mo. At that point
in time 7:1 was good to reduce busy signals for all but 1 hour a day
(split morning and afternoon).  10:1 resulted in many hours of busy
signals.  Now I would imagine that the demand for dialup, at least in
reasonably urban environments such as where I worked, has stayed about
constant, as there are more people on now, but most urbanites have dsl,
cable, etc rather than relying on modems (at that point in time where I
was it was dialup or frame relay/t1).  Given that dialup is $10/mo now I
cant imagine that it has gone down in demand so much that a 10:1 is
'good'.  From a business perspective it might be (churn rate is
'acceptable', tech support isnt hearing complaints all day long about
busy signals, the cost to add extra ports is greater than the cost of
dealing with users leaving and/or complaining) but I cant imagine that
its all that good of service.


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