On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:21:55AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Another important thing to remember when talking about a fiber > infrastructure as a utility is that it's not about your Mom, it's > about your Mom's flower shop. I want fiber in my home of course, and > it will come, but the home isn't really the point as much as > businesses are. A network infrastructure is essential to almost any > business today.
I don't know how many of you are following this, but it looks like private industry has already created a technology that outperforms fiber and is deployable at a fraction of the cost of laying cable everywhere: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040727/cgtu014_1.html By the time the city of Provo is done with their debacle, it will be obsolete and overpriced. Which is usually the case with government-sponsored initiatives of this sort. Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
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