Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area

Wed Apr 15 15:00:50 UTC 2009

Rod Beck wrote:
> And if the 10 gig wave is from 1 Wilshire to 60 Hudson with hundreds of regen huts and 30 POPs in between? 
>
> How that affect the capex cost?
>
>   
Sure, the capex cost of offering full diversity is substantial; my point 
was just that the cost of switching STM64 signals at the endpiints need 
not be a significant issue, since you only have to switch the optical 
path, which is cheap to do and highly reliable, and the kit to do that 
will only make up a tiny fraction of the rest of the capital and 
operations cost.

-- Neil