Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-14 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:42:32AM +, Fergie wrote: 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

Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] perhaps not. but there is a real issue w/ the number of businesses that operate from the home (according to some numbers this is as high as 65% of all US business) and the telcos still retain a mindset of business areas and residential areas. It is not possible to

Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-14 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:50:19AM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] perhaps not. but there is a real issue w/ the number of businesses that operate from the home (according to some numbers this is as high as 65% of all US business) and the telcos still retain a

Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-13 Thread Sean Donelan
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

Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-13 Thread Fergie
-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

Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-13 Thread Christian Kuhtz
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