Fiscal and logistic reasons, would be my guess.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Hilliard" <n...@foobar.org> To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.ti...@seacom.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 10:25:20 AM Subject: Re: Anyone running C-Data OLTs? Mark Tinka wrote on 13/07/2020 16:03: > Still don't know what "third world" means (of course I do...), but Obviously he means countries like Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#/media/File:Cold_War_alliances_mid-1975.svg > It's not clear why there's any relationship between third world status and the choice of PON/active FTTP equipment used in 2020. Or maybe there's some subtlety that being lost here. Hard to tell. Nick