No, the primary cost (other than laying the fiber) is in the electronics to
route the packets around once they leave the optics, and the upstream bandwith
and peering to other ISPs.
laying the fiber is expensive, optics are trivially cheap in comparison, but
while the theoretical bandwidth of the fiber is huge, that's only for the one
hop, once you get past that hop and have to deal with the aggregate bandwidth of
multiple endpoints, something has to give.
David Lang
On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Robert McMahon wrote:
The primary cost is the optics. That's why they're p in sfp and pay go
Bob
On Mar 25, 2023, 4:35 PM, at 4:35 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Robert McMahon via Bloat wrote:
The fiber has basically infinite capacity.
in theory, but once you start aggregating it and having to pay for
equipment
that can handle the rates, your 'infinite capaicty' starts to run out
really
fast.
David Lang
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