On Jul 28, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Michael Halcrow wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:Another important thing to remember when talking about a fiber infrastructure as a utility is that it's not about your Mom, it's about your Mom's flower shop. I want fiber in my home of course, and it will come, but the home isn't really the point as much as businesses are. A network infrastructure is essential to almost any business today.
I don't know how many of you are following this, but it looks like private industry has already created a technology that outperforms fiber and is deployable at a fraction of the cost of laying cable everywhere:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040727/cgtu014_1.html
Umm...Did you read the article? 300 Mbps does _not_ outperform fiber. Fiber is already well past this. Fiber carries light, so it is much more adaptable than most technologies, which makes it a great fit, as it will be able to carry more data in the future as technology advances.
By the time the city of Provo is done with their debacle, it will be obsolete and overpriced. Which is usually the case with government-sponsored initiatives of this sort.
Well, laying telephone wires was initially a government-sponsored initiative. An infrastructure that lasts for 100+ years isn't bad. :) Did you stay up late at the OLS carousing with RMS? Time to lay off the sauce, Mike. :)
Grant
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