Re: last mile capacity [was Re: QOS or more bandwidth]
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Sean M. Doran wrote:
The correct way of solving this was demonstrated in Stockholm and duplicated in a handful of Canadian cities. In the first case, the City of Stockholm "nationalized" the laying down of dark fibre in the city, and formed an agency (http://www.stokab.se/english/) which provides unlit/unrepeated/unamplified dark fibre between any pair of addresses in Stockholm at cost as a public utility.
On the other hand, Palo Alto California demonstrates the folly of relying on government to lay fiber optic pipes.
At 12:55 29/05/01, Sean Donelan wrote:
On the other hand, Palo Alto California demonstrates the folly of relying on government to lay fiber optic pipes.
Other folks strongly disagree with that assertion. A number of folks are quite happy with Palo Alto California's dark fibre arrangements. Obviously someone's mileage varies someplace... Ran
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RJ Atkinson
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Sean Donelan