On Jul 21, 2014, at 18:25 , Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> goe...@anime.net wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> - the anti-muni laws hurt small localities the most, where none of the big >>> players have any intent of deploying anything >> >> This is exacatly why ashland fiber network came to be. Because no provider >> was willing to step up and provide service. So the city did it. >> >> If there were laws against it there, then ashland would still have no >> service at all to this day. >> > > Is that Ashland, Oregon? I did some consulting on that project. The way it > started was: > - They needed to run a pair of fibers from City Hall to an out-building > - US West (I think) quoted $5k/month/fiber, at which point, > - the Mayor asked the director of the muni electric utility "what would it > cost to run some fiber" > - after some head scratching and some research, it came down to $100,000, one > time - mostly for the tooling and some training (they had the poles, bucket > trucks, linesman who were rated to work near live electric wires who were > sitting around waiting for the next storm to hit) > - after that, it was a no-brainer to start expanding the network > > The cool thing about the project: > - Ashland has a bunch of places that do Hollywood post-production - they eat > up tons of bandwidth shipping stuff around - really great for that segment No to mention a wonderful Shakespeare festival, a number of very nice restaurants with good food and a pretty neat downtown to explore. Need to get back up there... It's been a few years, but it's a lovely place to visit. Owen
