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Friday musing - Long distance fiber deployment resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nanog-isp@mail.com)
Mon Jul 17 02:50:29 2017
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There are a lot more cows than people with money in rural/remote areas=2E=
=20
Getting fiber to remote unserved areas is not a technical problem, it's a =
money/political problem=2E=20
On a good day, deploying 400 km of fiber costs in the ballpark of $10M=2E =
To that you then have to add the recurring costs of operations, maintenance=
and fees for the use of the right of way=2E=20
If the community can pay for that, all is good and well, just have at it=
=2E If not, somebody has to subsidize it and then it becomes a political pr=
oblem=2E=20
Jared
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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog=2Eorg> on behalf of Alain Hebert <aheb=
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 8:05 PM
To: nanog at nanog=2Eorg
Subject: Friday musing - Long distance fiber deployment resources
Warning: For just plain curiosity at the moment=2E
I was looking for publicly accessible feasibility studies, white
papers, etc, about long distance fiber deployment=2E (> 400km, aka >250
miles)
The interest comes from documenting myself about how poorly
deserved are the northern communities in Canada=2E And how "freakn a
shame it is to get pwned" by France telecom wise =3DD=2E
At this point my Goolge Fu is hardly getting thru the pointless
clutter search engines accumulated over the years=2E=2E=2E
From the numerous input so far:
A lot of the attempts where made to use facilities like rail or
electrical grid distribution, but it always ended squashed by a massive
push back from the telecom industries, and in one case, maybe the FMI=2E
I'm thinking:
If people can invest millions into DOTCOM that put fitbits on
cows=2E=2E=2E There must be a way to help those communities=2E And ourse=
lf,
from under the telecom giants=2E
Thanks=2E
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