[100411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vest)
Tue Oct 23 03:02:35 2007
In-Reply-To: <200710230033.27061.dr@kyx.net>
Cc: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:52:04 +0200
To: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 October 2007 19:20, David Andersen wrote:
>> Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by NTT.
>> "About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines -- roughly nine
>> times the number in the United States." -- particularly impressive
>> when you count that in per-capita terms.
>
> Recent?
>
> NTT started building the FTC buildout in the mid-90s. At least that's
> when the plans were first discussed. They took a bold leap back when
> most people were waffling about WANs and Bellcore was saying
> SMDS was going to be the way of the future. Now they reap the
> benefits, while some of us are left behind in the bandwidth ghettos
> of North America. :-(
Actually rollout didn't begin until 2002.
TV
> cheers,
> --dr
>
>
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