-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Sure, as long as you're willing to fork over the cash for CPE capable of >> handling OC-XX linecards. The service cost is hardly the only cost >> associated with buying that kind of bandwidth. It's amusing to me that >> we're worrying about FTTH when some of the largest carriers are still >> not capable of delivering ethernet handoffs in some of those same top 30 >> cities. Don't we need to get there first before we start wiring >> everyone's home with fiber and a small router with an SFP? > >Bell Atlantic had ethernet access since the early 1990's, along with FDDI, > SMDS, ATM, etc, etc, etc and whatever else various government agencies >wanted to buy around Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. Now AT&T, >Qwest and Verizon have metro ethernet access tariffs in major cities in >each of their territories. Ethernet seems to have won for data access >especially for 10Gbps and greater. > I know I saw a reference to "...wiring everyone's homes..." in the exchange above, so... Perhaps, depending on the last-mile and the consumer/business distinction, but up through the late 90's, all that was available to consumers (at best) was ISDN in Bell Atlantic territory -- at least in Northern Virginia. I left that area around 2000. >If you've got the money, they've got the ethernet for you. > >Unfortunately, "I want it" isn't a good business case. > True enough, and let's not confuse "business services" with "consumer services." The telcos/cablecos don't. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF928iq1pz9mNUZTMRAop/AJ9LTDxC/7zRYNLNy9kv3+cFegNaxQCfafQ8 vdPns/UKKR49VZWzy8wFeTE= =1lvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/