[14735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft offering xDSL access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Jan 23 10:55:44 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 02:23:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980123002630.43001@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
> UUNET doesn't own dedicated single-circuit copper to people's houses.
>
Okay, now lets talk about a wide-scale xDSL implementation using a
reasonably well known POP architecture like UUNet's.
If xDSL can only run about 18kft end-to-end, to service a wide metro area
like Washington, D.C. one would either have to have a POP within every 6
mile radius (fed by conventional circuits) or backhaul the data (by
conventional circuit) to their POP.
Is this correct, if not, what am I missing?
Thanks,
-Deepak.