-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> 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 government agencies wanted to buy around Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. Now AT&T, Qwest and Verizon have metro ethernet access tariffs in major cities in each of their territories. Ethernet seems to have won for data access especially for 10Gbps and greater.
I know I saw a reference to "...wiring everyone's homes..." in the exchange above, so... Perhaps, depending on the last-mile and the consumer/business distinction, but up through the late 90's, all that was available to consumers (at best) was ISDN in Bell Atlantic territory -- at least in Northern Virginia. I left that area around 2000.
If you've got the money, they've got the ethernet for you.
Unfortunately, "I want it" isn't a good business case.
True enough, and let's not confuse "business services" with "consumer services." The telcos/cablecos don't. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF928iq1pz9mNUZTMRAop/AJ9LTDxC/7zRYNLNy9kv3+cFegNaxQCfafQ8 vdPns/UKKR49VZWzy8wFeTE= =1lvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/