One thing to remember with New York in general. I have personal experience with dealing with pulling both copper and fiber in NY and its not just technical. Although there are huge problems with pulling new services and fiber on a technical level. Remember that most of the facilities were deployed in the 20's and 30's. Also a large problem is it was my experience pay-offs and some limited bribes were required to have linemen complete their work. A practical example of this was a t1 which I was told would take 3 months to install, after some palms were greaced dropped to 2.5 weeks. New York is a different animal all tgether. On 17 May 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
Actually, doesn't MFN usually outsource this to Bechtel, Keyspan Communications and others? :)
I don't know. It wouldn't change my position on the subject, which is that it's their fiber, and in NYC it's a large and complex plant, and they've got people working on the PAIX/NYIIX path who know a lot more about fiber in general AND this plant in particular than I do.