[173784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Aug 5 13:32:12 2014
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 10:26:44 -0700
To: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiber throug=
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>> pipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up
>> other people's glass are... unclear? :-)
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> Not really, if one company starts making mistakes, the other will also
> mistake their cables. It's like a working mexican standoff :)
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In reality, Mexican standoffs are often fatal.=20
>> Oh, wait: the conduit installer isn't a contractor, they're a monopoly?
> The people pushing fiber through the conduits are contractors. There are a=
> handful of companies licensed to operate this.
May be workable, but seems more expensive than operating cross connects in a=
serving wire center with little or no plausible benefit.=20
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>> No, that's even worse.
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> It's not perfect, but it works.
People say that about windows. I don't use it, either.=20
Owen
