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Re: Metro-area fiber providers (WAS Re: Cogent Communications?)
From: Matt Clauson <mec () dotorg org>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:46:50 -0700
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:13:41AM -0700, Dave Cooper wrote:
Not that i am even remotely defending Cogent but how does Yipes plan to offer Internet at Gigabit speeds? Or is that more marketing fud.... Quoted from Yipes web page: "Yipes is Faster. Yipes brings you the Internet at fiber-optic speeds, up to 1 Gbps"
I'm not the best at explaining the technology... But the short version is that we're deploying our fiber as metro area fiber "rings".... Using Gig-E fiber, not SONET. To bring down the data speed to the customer rate, we rate-limit at the ethernet interface facing the customer (we drop a smart switch in each building where we have a customer lit). Depending on the customer's requirements (speed, latency, equipment) is what kind of switch we deploy -- we can provision copper 10(0)baseT, or gig-e fiber. --mec
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