Yes that darn business driver of selling more transport. Reminds me of my days at a PTT doing research for applications to drive transport. Seeing the big picture is usually very helpful, people don't buy transport for no reason. If you're not the PTT or cable based telco then selling transport itself isn't your strength, it's providing the flexibility the cable maintenance folks can't or won't provide in servicing the business need of customers. Any customer with money and a business driver for several hundred GE's within one metro area will likely have a ton of other business outside that metro you'd like to get. IMHO, even subcontracting the "hassle" would be worth it to gain the visibility and position for future business.
The main area to challenge(and that will create good savings) is the assumption of housing all equipment in COs. Serving customers from customer premises works if you're careful. I can think of some big providers in europe who made it fly with a handful of different techniques. Also look at the long established Sonet ADMs at customer prems, we know it's viable with good planning/engineering. I still believe the options I've stated make sense for the described situation regardless of the short visioned layer8 of FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
