Re: last mile capacity

[RJ Atkinson <rja () inet org>]

At 11:38 29/05/01, Sean M. Doran wrote:

> Irwin Lazar <ILazar () tbg com> writes
>
> | In our
> | area, we're also seeing a lot of pushback against the continued tearing up
> | of streets to lay additional fiber, so QoS may become the only option to
> | meet required service levels.
>
> The correct way of solving this was demonstrated in Stockholm
> and duplicated in a handful of Canadian cities.   In the first case,
> the City of Stockholm "nationalized" the laying down of dark fibre
> in the city, and formed an agency (http://www.stokab.se/english/) which 
> provides unlit/unrepeated/unamplified dark fibre between any pair
> of addresses in Stockholm at cost as a public utility.

        At least some US cities are following the lead of Stockholm.
Palo Alto, CA is one example.  Others exist.  The common thread
seems to be city-owned/operated monopolies for water/electricity/etc
-- so they can reduce install cost by just laying fibre whenever
they are already trenching for electricity/water/etc maintenance.

Ran
rja () inet org