I like this dark fiber model too, but I think it's been tried, probably at the wrong time though. I know there were several companies doing that down here in the DFW area back in the late 90's. None left. My buddy, who worked for one for a while ended up taking the job as IT Director for the city of Frisco, a wealthy suburb north of Dallas. Every time they tore up a road for any reason, he would make them put in fiber with the idea that the city could not only serve it's own needs but generate revenue that wasn't tied to the taxpayers. When the not so forward thinking city manager put a stop to it, my buddy resigned. I would think that any company doing this on a large scale would need some major funding and at least some laws to fast track the regulatory process so they wouldn't have to fight permitting and zoning in every municipality in the country. Unfortunately, that means politics which generally leads to how much of the tax payer's money is involved whether it is loans or grants or just greasing the palms of everyone who wants a piece of the pie.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:35 PM, <fiber...@mail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 01, 2017 Ken Hohhof wrote: > > How sure are you that 20 years from now, that investment will still look > “future proof”? > Looking down at the fiber I put down the better part of twenty years ago > and still use, I say, yeah, it's still good for another twenty years and > about as future proof as anything gets. > > > Or will it look like 8-track tapes and CB radio and non-flying cars and > meat made from animals? > Commercial products will give me 10 Tbps per fiber and the C band is > theoretically good for at least 100 Tbps, so I think we've got scalability > pretty well down and we aren't going to run out of bits any time soon. > > Assuming there was something better out there, we'd know about it by > now. Commercial products don't just appear from the thin ether. They take > years of R&D to commercialize. At the very least we should have scientific > papers detailing revolutionary breakthroughs in science that will lead to > something replacing fiber in twenty years. > > > I remember when we were supposed to wire every house for ISDN, because > in the future, everyone would “need” two 64 kbps bearer channels and a 16 > kbps data > > channel and “integrated services”. > I think picking on ISDN is a bit myopic. ISDN turned into g.fast which > will do a respectable gigabit over short distances. > > > Jared >
