On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, andrew2@one.net wrote:
Sure, as long as you're willing to fork over the cash for CPE capable of handling OC-XX linecards. The service cost is hardly the only cost associated with buying that kind of bandwidth. It's amusing to me that we're worrying about FTTH when some of the largest carriers are still not capable of delivering ethernet handoffs in some of those same top 30 cities. Don't we need to get there first before we start wiring everyone's home with fiber and a small router with an SFP?
Bell Atlantic had ethernet access since the early 1990's, along with FDDI, SMDS, ATM, etc, etc, etc and whatever else various
NMLI (native mode LAN interconnect or today it'd be called metro e) has actually been available by a variety of LECs around the same time frame.