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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen () imacandi net>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 20:56:18 +0300
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiberthroughpipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up other people's glass are... unclear? :-)Not really, if one company starts making mistakes, the other will also mistake their cables. It's like a working mexican standoff :)In reality, Mexican standoffs are often fatal.
If you blink.
Oh, wait: the conduit installer isn't a contractor, they're a monopoly?The people pushing fiber through the conduits are contractors. There areahandful of companies licensed to operate this.May be workable, but seems more expensive than operating cross connects in a serving wire center with little or no plausible benefit.
So how is blowing microfibre in some tubes more expensive? You pay a one off installation fee and then a small monthly rate for the circuit (payable yearly). The really nice and geeky part is that you can actually choose how your fiber will run, so if you want diverse paths to a location you can achieve that with certainty.
No, that's even worse.It's not perfect, but it works.People say that about windows. I don't use it, either.
:) It works because it's very cheap to get high speed internet into all kinds of areas, especially residential ones.
Current thread:
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics, (continued)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Vlade Ristevski (Aug 02)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Leo Bicknell (Aug 02)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Vlade Ristevski (Aug 02)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Mark Tinka (Aug 02)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Måns Nilsson (Aug 03)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jay Ashworth (Aug 04)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Eugeniu Patrascu (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Eugeniu Patrascu (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Eugeniu Patrascu (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Aug 06)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Matthew Kaufman (Aug 06)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics mcfbbqroast . (Aug 04)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Aug 05)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Aug 05)
- Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics) Jay Ashworth (Aug 05)
- Re: Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics) Matthew Kaufman (Aug 05)