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From: "Ray Soucy" <rps@maine.edu>
Ignoring the fact that we haven't reached our limits with fiber yet ...
Not close, and we're at 100G already.
The next major speed boost for broadband will be over fiber. And because the bottleneck at that point becomes equipment, we'll continue to see a healthy round of upgrades in speed over the same fiber plant.
And, much more to the point, ONTs will go over the edge of the Consumer Pricing S-curve. Bet *cash* on this. But another more interesting point being missed here is this: Assuming pointopoint fiber, *you can provision different classes of service appropriately*. If some client wants to pay for 40G fiber? Cool. You can do that. That in itself seems to positively skew the potential for muni layer 1 installs, to me. And it doesn't *preclude* the muni operating a standardized layer 2 for those carriers who don't want to do that part themselves; economy of scale will actually be productive there, I suspect. Anyone want to start Level 1 Communications? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274