[79867] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jmalcolm@uraeus.com)
Sun Apr 17 13:36:51 2005
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:36:23 +0000
From: jmalcolm@uraeus.com
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A52106C@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
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Hannigan, Martin writes:
>As long as the hardware can keep up, the amount of glass in spectrum
>in the ground should make this an impossibility for the near term,
>10 years plus.
Fiber isn't useful by itself; there are two obvious things needed to
turn a piece of glass into something that can carry IP - transmission
equipment and routers. While it'll be a while before carriers need to
trench across the Rockies again, the day of needing to buy the
equipment to plug into the fiber is already here for some providers.
