Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Tue Feb 12 20:20:50 UTC 2013

I was in an Incognito user group meeting with one of the guys involved with
that project two years ago and we talked about it.  Its very cool and
frankly extreme engineering :)

He had some pictures of them dragging under sea cables themselves that blew
my mind.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Warren Bailey <
wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:

> Though I should note that GCI was my former employer and a well respected
> MSO and fiber infrastructure owner/operator. They are the smartest major
> player I've come across, and an all around good bunch of people.
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> From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Warren Bailey <wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
> Date: 02/11/2013 4:44 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen at sprunk.org>,nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
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> Check out GCI's Terranet project.
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> From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen at sprunk.org>
> Date: 02/11/2013 4:37 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
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> On 11-Feb-13 18:23, Warren Bailey wrote:
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> > On 2/11/13 4:16 PM, "Masataka Ohta" <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
> wrote:
> >> Scott Helms wrote:
> >>> IMO if you can't pay for the initial build quickly and run it
> efficiently then your chances of long term success are very low.
> >> That is not a business model for infrastructure such as gas,
> electricity, CATV, water and fiber network, all of which need long term
> planning and investments.
> > Nearly all of the industries you mentioned below receive some type of
> local or federal/government funding. If I was going to build some kind of
> access network, I would be banging on the .gov door asking for grants and
> low interest loans to help roll out broadband to remote areas.
> I followed the link in a recent email here to the details on the Maine
> Fiber Co, and their web site indicates they got started with $7M in private
> funding--and a $25M grant from the feds for improving service to rural
> areas.  That radically changes the economics, just as I'm sure it did for
> other utilities.
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> S
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> --
> Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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