Re: Remooted: a deployment design for Muni Fiber (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Aug 5, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at> wrote:

> Is there any way we could stop this discussion until we can get some participants who have experience doing things 
> like emergency post-ice-storm overhead circuit restoration to show up and explain exactly why charging a small 
> one-time fee for a fiber from A to Z is probably not a sustainable model?

I completely agree that XC without MRC is an unsustainable model, but I believe only one person proposed that, so I 
don’t think calling for an end to the discussion just because you realize what everyone but one person does is 
warranted.

> In the meantime, I'd like to see the city where an ISP can buy as many of the microducts as they want. I'd like to 
> buy them all, please... though I have no intention of running anything though them, as I'm an investor in the local 
> cable TV company.

Which seems to support my argument for direct fiber PREM<->Serving Wire Center.

Owen