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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
From: Andrew Gallo <akg1330 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:35:02 -0400
On 7/21/2014 2:58 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
Agree 100%. Layer-1 infrastructure is a high-cost, long term investment with little 'value-add' You don't see too many companies clamoring to put in new water or sewer pipes. Treat fiber the same way.On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, William Herrin wrote:The only exception I see to this would be if localities were constrained to providing point to point and point to multipoint communications infrastructure within the locality on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. The competition that would foster on the services side might outweigh the damage on the infrastructure side. Like public roads facilitate efficient transportation and freight despite the cost and potholes, though that's an imperfect simile.While I might not agree with the parts of your email you cut out, I would definitely like to chime in on this part. Muni fiber should be exactly that, muni *fiber*. Point to point fiber optic single mode fiber cabling, aggregating thousands of households per location, preferrably tens of thousands.It's hard to go wrong in this area, it either works or it doesn't, and in these aggregation nodes people can compete with several different technologies, they can use PON, they can use active ethernet, they can provide corporate 10GE connections if they need to, they can run hybrid/fiber coax, they can run point-to-point 1GE for residential. Anything is possible and the infrastructure is likely to be as viable in 30 years as it is day 1 after installation.
The money is in content, which is why we're seeing ISP and media consolidation.
Current thread:
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics, (continued)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Måns Nilsson (Jul 31)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jason Iannone (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jay Ashworth (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Matthew Kaufman (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Hugo Slabbert (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Andrew Gallo (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Miles Fidelman (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics goemon (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Miles Fidelman (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Miles Fidelman (Jul 21)