[92751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Oct 10 11:25:44 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <OFC6935AD6.2B9342F8-ON80257203.00508F92-80257203.005124E4@btradianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Sounds reasonable to me. Since the sale of energy is
> usually measured in kilowatt-hours, how many kwh of
> energy is transmitted across the average optical fibre
> before it reaches the powereda mplifier in the destination
> switch/router?
Also, remember, it's _net_ energy delivered which matters... I'm sure the
customer is delivering light back toward the ISP as well.
-Bill
