----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Hilliard" <n...@foobar.org>
> > wiring center you enable all technologies. GPON today, direct GigE > > or 10GE where necessary, and all future technologies. > > yep, agreed - much more sensible, much more resilient to failure and > only marginally more expensive. > > It'll never be done though. Too much to lose by creating a topology > which allows you to unbundle the tail. A municipality hasn't much to lose; they can declare a monopoly. Which was rather precisely the point. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274