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Rural nework economics [was: Sabotage...]
From: John Osmon <josmon () rigozsaurus com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:28:40 -0700
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:15:11AM -0500, Douglas S. Peeples wrote:
What you describe is a folded ring and is indicative of either a temporary solution or bad network design. As a rule, phone companies and capacity suppliers build very robust systems.
LATA and ILEC boundaries, along with fiscal measures tend to conspire against rural areas. The result is bad network design or a temporary solution that is going to be in place for decades. By example: I can't imagine Taos, New Mexico needing more than an OC-48 to service all of its voice and data needs over the next few years. The ILEC had a reason (and funding) to build fiber to the city -- but who will pickup the tab for the redundant build? The revenue from the services on a single OC-48 won't pay for it...
Current thread:
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest, (continued)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Vincent J. Bono (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Henry Linneweh (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Brian Bruns (Nov 03)
- RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Douglas S. Peeples (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts... [collapsed RBOC rings] fkittred (Nov 03)
- RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts... [collapsed RBOC rings] Deepak Jain (Nov 03)
- Re: Sabotage inv... [collapsed RBOC rings] [Fascinating Reading] fkittred (Nov 03)
- RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Owen DeLong (Nov 03)
- RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Ray Burkholder (Nov 03)
- RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Henry Linneweh (Nov 03)
- Rural nework economics [was: Sabotage...] John Osmon (Nov 03)
- Re: Rural nework economics [was: Sabotage...] John Brown (CV) (Nov 03)
- Re: Rural nework economics [was: Sabotage...] fkittred (Nov 04)
- Re: Rural nework economics [was: Sabotage...] just me (Nov 04)
- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Marshall Eubanks (Nov 03)