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Re: what's behind PacBell's $16G fibre->home announcement?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kuder)
Sat Nov 13 19:10:51 1993

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 93 15:57 PST
From: david@wombat.com (David Kuder)
To: harrys@smtplink.ngc.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com

I think that folks in the industry refer to this model as "fiber to
the pylon".  It is a common model for cable companies that are moving
over to fiber distribution systems.  And Pacbell's proposol looks a
lot like a cable plant until you get inside the CO and at the NAP.

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