[83240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Mon Aug 8 05:19:12 2005
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 05:16:42 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050808022019.GT8847@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> The bottom line is that at a certain point there are a limited number
> times you can put a wire to everyone's house into the ground. Cable modems
> only make sense because the cable TV customer base to justify the build.
> At some point in the future we might actually come up with a workable IP
> over powerline technology, but again that will only make sense because of
> the existing customer base that wants electricity.
802.16 is starting to sound promising -- the first certified "WiMAX" gear is
starting to get rolled out right about now.
Still a little bit of time away for general deployment, but certainly
eliminates the wiring requirement.
--
-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
