[151609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Mar 26 15:51:13 2012
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:46:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F6F60D3.6030703@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
> > wiring center you enable all technologies. GPON today, direct GigE
> > or 10GE where necessary, and all future technologies.
>
> yep, agreed - much more sensible, much more resilient to failure and
> only marginally more expensive.
>
> It'll never be done though. Too much to lose by creating a topology
> which allows you to unbundle the tail.
A municipality hasn't much to lose; they can declare a monopoly.
Which was rather precisely the point.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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