[151611] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Mon Mar 26 15:54:16 2012
In-Reply-To: <7420396.8381.1332791204059.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:53:19 -0400
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
True, but it's the one monopoly where you get a vote.
I'm not sure it's fair to call a municipality a monopoly ... but that's
just me.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- 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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