True, but it's the one monopoly where you get a vote. I'm not sure it's fair to call a municipality a monopoly ... but that's just me.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- 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 > > -- Ray Soucy Epic Communications Specialist Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526 Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System http://www.networkmaine.net/