Re: Flat Rate Pricing

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 14:16:18 MST


From: Brian Atkins <brian@posthuman.com>

>All I'm claiming is that the technology to light up 6.4tbit per
>cable is now available. OC-192 is old news; 80gbit/sec lambdas
>have been demonstrated as far back as 1999 (I think) by multiple
>companies.

Yeah, these are the new standard for backbones, but there aren't
very many of them, and they're VERY expensive (got one across the
street). To completely replace everything we'd need alot of them.
Note too that these are just backbones, you'd need thousands of
individual OC-192's to buildings/neighboorhoods.

I have the January LIGHTWAVE sitting in front of me, they're
talking 300 channels....

www.light-wave.com
 
>> Something I've always thought interesting. As we advance to the
>>all optical network, we may start with a system that basically
>>switches individual fibers with MEMS, in effect replacing the
>>copper with fiber creating a mostly optical circuit switched
>>network!

>This is already being done. Companies like Metromedia Fiber have
>built big fiber loops in most US cities. Companies like Cogent
>Communications are now buying this fiber and hooking up office
>buildings to it. Their current offer is 100Mbit Net connection for
>$1000/month. The end of the business T1 is near. These connections
>are simply ethernet run over fiber... the lambdas may be circuit
>switched, but below that it is all IP.

I was talking residential.

I have dealings with both these companies. But note these numbers
are for business service, and in downtown urban areas too. Nobody's
talking residential service here, and not many could afford $1000
a month either. Not exactly "free" phone calls.

I like competition.

Brian

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Brian

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