[92757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue Oct 10 11:56:33 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:27:07 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0610100807310.27414@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Reasonable? I think you mean "justifiable".
On 10/10/06, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
