----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Soucy" <r...@maine.edu>
> Ignoring the fact that we haven't reached our limits with fiber yet > ... Not close, and we're at 100G already. > The next major speed boost for broadband will be over fiber. And because > the bottleneck at that point becomes equipment, we'll continue to see a > healthy round of upgrades in speed over the same fiber plant. And, much more to the point, ONTs will go over the edge of the Consumer Pricing S-curve. Bet *cash* on this. But another more interesting point being missed here is this: Assuming pointopoint fiber, *you can provision different classes of service appropriately*. If some client wants to pay for 40G fiber? Cool. You can do that. That in itself seems to positively skew the potential for muni layer 1 installs, to me. And it doesn't *preclude* the muni operating a standardized layer 2 for those carriers who don't want to do that part themselves; economy of scale will actually be productive there, I suspect. Anyone want to start Level 1 Communications? 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
