<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Fiscal and logistic reasons, would be my guess.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org><br><b>To: </b>"Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.com><br><b>Cc: </b>nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 13, 2020 10:25:20 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Anyone running C-Data OLTs?<br><br>Mark Tinka wrote on 13/07/2020 16:03:<br>> Still don't know what "third world" means (of course I do...), but<br><br>Obviously he means countries like Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland.<br><br>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World#/media/File:Cold_War_alliances_mid-1975.svg<br><br>It's not clear why there's any relationship between third world status <br>and the choice of PON/active FTTP equipment used in 2020. Or maybe <br>there's some subtlety that being lost here. Hard to tell.<br><br>Nick<br></div><br></div></body></html>