[95287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Wed Mar 14 01:37:46 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0703132251070.9533@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:34:01 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, andrew2@one.net wrote:
>> Sure, as long as you're willing to fork over the cash for CPE
>> capable of
>> handling OC-XX linecards. The service cost is hardly the only cost
>> associated with buying that kind of bandwidth. It's amusing to me
>> that
>> we're worrying about FTTH when some of the largest carriers are
>> still not
>> capable of delivering ethernet handoffs in some of those same top
>> 30 cities.
>> Don't we need to get there first before we start wiring everyone's
>> home with
>> fiber and a small router with an SFP?
>
> Bell Atlantic had ethernet access since the early 1990's, along
> with FDDI, SMDS, ATM, etc, etc, etc and whatever else various
NMLI (native mode LAN interconnect or today it'd be called metro e)
has actually been available by a variety of LECs around the same time
frame.
