[160720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Mon Feb 11 19:45:30 2013
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:42:57 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5119897C.4010007@sprunk.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> The fiber plant would presumably be paid for with 30-year bonds, same as
> any other municipal infrastructure (eg. water and sewer lines--the real
> "pipes"), for which interest rates are currently running around the rate
> of inflation. There is no need to pay them off quickly.
In addition, as PON is even less efficient initially when
subscriber density is low and there are few subscribers to
share a field splitter (unless extremely lengthy drop cables
are used, which costs a lot), PON is slower to pay them off.
Masataka Ohta
