>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
>> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes: Keith> Perhaps you should look at the numbers for a comparable Keith> non-capital city such as Upsalla, Russell> How dense is Lafayette LA? Or the network in Burlington VT? Russell> The dude from Burlington, Tim Nulty, says building fiber is Russell> cheaper than wireless (assuming you actually provide decent Russell> service). See this: Russell> Russell> http://www.fiberevolution.com/2009/04/interview-tim-nulty.html Keith> You tell us. East coast towns are pretty dense, more like Keith> urban Europe than eastern Portland. Have you ever been to Vermont? The network was characterized as Fiber-to-the-Farm. http://ecfiber.net/ Lafayette, Lousiana is not particularly dense either, afaik. Its voters. lead by a Republican mayor, decided they wanted it by a 65-35% margin. It turned on its first customer back in February. Its principle impediment was not financial, it was legal hurdles thrown by incumbents. All of which lost, but at the cost of some delay. Keith> The fact remains that provisioning fiber to the home costs Keith> about $1000 per endpoint for something durable (source: the guy Keith> that installed fiber to my house). Most of the Portland network can be built aerially, like the telephone and cable infrastructure is. Downtown, it would be necessary to build underground, however some of that sub-street conduit already exists. The estimate is that it'll cost about one lane worth of a trans-Columbia river bridge to completely build out a fiber-to- the-premises network in Portland. That's equivalent to about 3 years of Comcast service. Then we'd own it. Maybe that sounds like a bad deal to you. It sounds like a good deal to me. Just to repeat myself (again?), this doesn't rely on taking stuff away from the fire department, poor people, health care or a soccer stadium. This relies on people redirecting the money that they are throwing down a rathole on perpetual rent and limited freedom with incumbents like Comcast, to something that we'll own, that will last a long time, and that has massively more capacity than existing infrastructure. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
