Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jul 21, 2014, at 18:25 , Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
goe...@anime.net wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
- the anti-muni laws hurt small localities the most, where none of the big
players have any intent of deploying anything
This is exacatly why ashland fiber network came to be. Because no provider was
willing to step up and provide service. So the city did it.
If there were laws against it there, then ashland would still have no service
at all to this day.
Is that Ashland, Oregon? I did some consulting on that project. The way it
started was:
- They needed to run a pair of fibers from City Hall to an out-building
- US West (I think) quoted $5k/month/fiber, at which point,
- the Mayor asked the director of the muni electric utility "what would it cost to
run some fiber"
- after some head scratching and some research, it came down to $100,000, one
time - mostly for the tooling and some training (they had the poles, bucket
trucks, linesman who were rated to work near live electric wires who were
sitting around waiting for the next storm to hit)
- after that, it was a no-brainer to start expanding the network
The cool thing about the project:
- Ashland has a bunch of places that do Hollywood post-production - they eat up
tons of bandwidth shipping stuff around - really great for that segment
No to mention a wonderful Shakespeare festival, a number of very nice
restaurants with good food and a pretty neat downtown to explore.
And a wonderful park designed by Olmsted!
Need to get back up there... It's been a few years, but it's a lovely place to
visit.
Likewise!
Cheers,
Miles
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
