On Mar 13, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Sean Donelan 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
NMLI (native mode LAN interconnect or today it'd be called metro e)
has actually been available by a variety of LECs around the same time
frame.