[9651] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill summary: Telecommunications Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (adam fast)
Sat Jan 15 12:26:57 1994
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 09:26:19 -0800 (PST)
From: adam fast <adamfast@u.washington.edu>
To: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, Jeff Sterling <jeffgs@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <ghC08xW00VAD06YRFV@andrew.cmu.edu>
On Sat, 15 Jan 1994, Marvin Sirbu wrote:
> Indeed, technology suggests that CO serving areas are likely to get even
> larger. A typical cable company design has fiber backbones from a
> single headend going out to neighborhoods of 500 homes or so where the
> optical signal is converted to an electrical signal and sent the rest of
> the way on coax. Typically, however, all switching is done at the
> headend for a community of up to 100,000 households.
yes, we understand this. the bill doesn't specify where switching has to
be performed. all it says is that for every ten thousand people /or less/
there has to be a public, neutral point where people can connect their
networks together.
(the idea of this is to encourage local, geographical commuity and
local, geographical economic development.)
in the telephone example, this would be a point where a local telephone
company would arrange to exchange local traffic with the rest of the
telephone network. it does not specify that /either/ company has to
conduct their switching at this point.
adam
