[100475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon has been listening to nanog.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Wed Oct 24 09:11:11 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:58:13 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <471F3AC2.4080906@ttec.com>; from Joe Maimon on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:29:54AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:29:54AM -0400, Joe Maimon wrote:
> > On 10/23/07, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> >
> >>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-10-23-verizon-fios-plan_N.htm
> >>
> >>20 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up, fully symmetrical for $65.
> >
> >
> > That's pretty sweet, now all they have to do is start laying the fiber
> > over here...
>
> And stop ripping out copper.
Now that I've gotten caught up on my inbox, perhaps this apropos article
will be viewed as more timely for this list than my earlier outburst:
http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/10/24/292/PhD_Student_Claims_200x_Improvement_for_Copper_Broadband
(there's also a link in the article WRT to the Verizon issue of
copper XOR fiber.)
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
