Last May we talked at some length about municipally owned wholesale fiber, and whether it was a commercially feasible idea. For those who have a few minutes (I figure, it's a holiday; the Whacky Weekend starts early :-), I'd like some advice, input, pointers, or the like, on exactly how you *do* this these days. I'm looking at 2.8 square miles of city, about 10k connections or so. I'm inclined to say trunking should be underground; I'm not sure if the drops need to be as well, though this *is* Florida; One Big Storm probably eats up even the 6x differential I've been told trenching the drops cost. What sort of ONT would one use for this? I am assuming it's impractical to do layer 1 and just move patch cords around; I'll have to work at layer 2, and supply to my wholesale customers some termination interface that extends them to the GigE or DOCSIS coax coming out the other end of the box...? Are there installation contractors with packaged proposals for this sort of thing, at this 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 #natog +1 727 647 1274