Muni Fiber and Politics

Mon Aug 4 18:11:44 UTC 2014

Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding
>> horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit
>> service you can come up with today does.
> Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. I'm sure there was a time when that claim could have been made about copper. I would not make that claim about copper today (or even 10 years ago).
>
Assuming the rodents don't eat your fiber.

Miles Fidelman