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Jerry Scharf wrote: > > 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. Not true, long haul fiber *way* outways the initial ADM investment over about 1 years time frame, just not up-front. Remember: Dark fiber is a monthly re-occuring..... > 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. Only for small ISP's. This is not even *slightly* true of transcontinental runs. Reality check, it costs me *way* more to put up long haul, than it does local. Something needs to account for this.... But, what? >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. Some of us see it as: We are overcharging customers who don't use their service much, to offset *not billing* enough for those who do.... I don't call that archaic. But, I also don't think it is going to change anytime soon.... Richard > > jerry
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