[173773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Aug 4 21:34:27 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <53DFCCE0.9030003@meetinghouse.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 18:29:08 -0700
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> =
wrote:
> 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).
>>=20
> Assuming the rodents don't eat your fiber.
>=20
> Miles Fidelman
Most burried fiber is pretty rodent resistant these days.
Owen
