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Jerry: You are absolutely right. I have pulled together some numbers on public pricing for long haul WDM (including right of way) showing that if you out IP over WDM the cost of bandwidth drops by a factor of 100 to 1000. On local loops it is more dramatic - with new WDM technology from companies like Cambrian and Ciena gigabit ethernet or OC-48 SONET on a 5km local loop should cost about $2500 per YEAR. A number of our regional networks have already pulled their own fiber and our realizing these costs in the real world. Fibre - $4 to $6 per meter 20 year economic life and 10% maintenance per year 48 strands NZDSF Right of way $0 -$10 per meter per year (up to $200 per meter on long haul) but common solution is to offer right way owner free use of a couple of strands instead of paying cash Installation $25 per meter underground in cities $6 per meter on poles (maintenance costs 20% year) Twenty year amortized cost with 10% cost of money plus maintenance plus right of way costs at $10/year per meter $17 per year per meter for 48 strands $1.50 per year per meter per strand $.50 per year per meter per wavelength A 5 km OC-48 local loop should cost about $2500/year Bill ------------------------------------------- Bill St Arnaud Director Network Projects CANARIE [email protected] http://www.canarie.ca/bstarn � � > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Jerry Scharf > Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 12:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: flat vs non-flat charging > > > I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many > cases. With WDM, > the cost of the WDM and SONET eqiupment on the ends of a fully > populated 32 > channel per fiber, 144 strand pull vastly outweight end-to-end > fiber costs of > anything pulled through the ground. When you add routers and the > like on top > of that, the distance issue really goes away and it becomes on of network > topology hops. Can anyone with figures for new intercontinental pulls say > whether this is true there as well (project oxygen marketing claims this, > but...)? > > Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP > services is just not right. > > jerry > >
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