[92760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Oct 10 12:23:14 2006
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:29:53 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <452BB971.8050600@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Well there's of course back taxes charged for a period of ~ 3 years or
more, plus interest and late payment penalties on those back taxes
On 10/10/06, Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A Cisco ZX GBIC produces a max of 4.77 dBm (or less than 4mw). 4mw
> corresponds to 35 watt hours in one year.
>
> However, since the customer must beam back light as part of the exchange
> then you must track the number of pulses in both directions and
> determine the difference. Some days the customer gets more energy and
> some days it doesn't. That should affect the tax.
>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
