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At 11:38 29/05/01, Sean M. Doran wrote: >Irwin Lazar <[email protected]> writes > >| In our >| area, we're also seeing a lot of pushback against the continued tearing up >| of streets to lay additional fiber, so QoS may become the only option to >| meet required service levels. > >The correct way of solving this was demonstrated in Stockholm >and duplicated in a handful of Canadian cities. In the first case, >the City of Stockholm "nationalized" the laying down of dark fibre >in the city, and formed an agency (http://www.stokab.se/english/) which >provides unlit/unrepeated/unamplified dark fibre between any pair >of addresses in Stockholm at cost as a public utility. At least some US cities are following the lead of Stockholm. Palo Alto, CA is one example. Others exist. The common thread seems to be city-owned/operated monopolies for water/electricity/etc -- so they can reduce install cost by just laying fibre whenever they are already trenching for electricity/water/etc maintenance. Ran [email protected]
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