h Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:21:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4696B6EC.3050305@ukbroadband.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:19:08 +0100 From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk> CC: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted References: <200707122141.WAA06503@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200707122141.WAA06503@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jul 2007 23:21:36.0952 (UTC) FILETIME=[64B08380:01C7C4 DB] Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Precedence: bulk Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu X-Loop: nanog X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mozart.merit.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A090205.4696BF0F.0112:SCGAP167720,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=198.108.1.26, so=2006-09-22 03:48:54, dmn=5.3.14/2007-05-31 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: NonJunk X-UID: 41 I see a global demand for perhaps 5 CRS-1s ;-) Brandon Butterworth wrote:

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Wouldn't residential fiber be expected to radiate out from neighborhood break-out boxes, or at the longest from a central office in the middle of town, rather than having some central point where enough individual strands of fiber converged to serve everybody in a 2,000 kilometer radius?

CRS-1 so expensive there'll only be one per country.

brandon