cost of doing business (was:Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent)

Sun Apr 17 17:36:23 UTC 2005

Hannigan, Martin writes:
>As long as the hardware can keep up, the amount of glass in spectrum
>in the ground should make this an impossibility for the near term,
>10 years plus.

Fiber isn't useful by itself; there are two obvious things needed to
turn a piece of glass into something that can carry IP - transmission
equipment and routers. While it'll be a while before carriers need to
trench across the Rockies again, the day of needing to buy the
equipment to plug into the fiber is already here for some providers.