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From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>
wiring center you enable all technologies. GPON today, direct GigE or 10GE where necessary, and all future technologies.
yep, agreed - much more sensible, much more resilient to failure and only marginally more expensive.
It'll never be done though. Too much to lose by creating a topology which allows you to unbundle the tail.
A municipality hasn't much to lose; they can declare a monopoly. Which was rather precisely the point. 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