Fiscal and logistic reasons, would be my guess.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest-IX
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From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 10:25:20 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone running C-Data OLTs?
Mark Tinka wrote on 13/07/2020 16:03:
> Still don't know what "third world" means (of course I do...), but
Obviously he means countries like Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#/media/File:Cold_War_alliances_mid-1975.svg
It's not clear why there's any relationship between third world status
and the choice of PON/active FTTP equipment used in 2020. Or maybe
there's some subtlety that being lost here. Hard to tell.
Nick