[173347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics - ENDGAME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Jul 22 14:34:55 2014
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:34:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> You can assume $8-1200 per passing, if you fiber the entire town at once
> (my example was 12000 passings, 3-pr, in 2.3 sqmi). Then you're going
> to have to operate the core, which will take power and at least 5 people
> to man it 24/7. And finally, figure on at least 4-6 multi-10GE uplinks,
> and those things don't exactly grow on trees -- there's no sense in
> providing 1G/1G if people can't actually use it.
We only want them to run the L1 network, not L2.
> And where's that money come from? Yup: local taxes, mostly property.
Stockholm municipal fiber (L1 only) has been operating fiber network since
1994, they're doing ~20MUSD profit on ~100MUSD turnover per year.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
