[173763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Mon Aug 4 14:12:22 2014
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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:11:44 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
CC: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding
>> horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit
>> service you can come up with today does.
> Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. I'm sure there was a time when that claim could have been made about copper. I would not make that claim about copper today (or even 10 years ago).
>
Assuming the rodents don't eat your fiber.
Miles Fidelman
