RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] AT&T tiered pricing...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Spurling, Shannon wrote:

> It's not getting that much cheaper. This isn't commodity PC
> equipment.

Yup.

[snip]

> Sure, processors might get more powerful and cheaper, but the
> lasers they use to drive OC's aren't.

I bet they are, but just not very fast in nominal dollars.

> Copper isn't getting any cheaper.

In real dollars, it actually is.  And the capacity of existing fiber
in the ground apparently went way up with some of the (admittedly 
very pricey) tech.  And, nowadays, there is so much fiber in the 
ground that the raw cost of that alone (which is not the same thing
as working network, of course) has gotten very low.

Hey, an adventurous soul could probably pick up all of the
(now-bankrupt) Velocita fiber network for pennies on the dollar.  
At the moment, it's only lit from St. Louis to Dallas (I think) via
KC and Tulsa (and no POP in Columbia) but nobody really very much
needs fiber redundant with what ATT put in the ground at the same
time.

jking


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