[38139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: last mile capacity [was Re: QOS or more bandwidth]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue May 29 12:57:18 2001
Date: 29 May 2001 09:55:20 -0700
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> The correct way of solving this was demonstrated in Stockholm
> and duplicated in a handful of Canadian cities. In the first case,
> the City of Stockholm "nationalized" the laying down of dark fibre
> in the city, and formed an agency (http://www.stokab.se/english/) which
> provides unlit/unrepeated/unamplified dark fibre between any pair
> of addresses in Stockholm at cost as a public utility.
On the other hand, Palo Alto California demonstrates the folly of
relying on government to lay fiber optic pipes.
