[Hidden-tech] WiredWest fiberoptic broadband

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:06:26 -0400 roy at net-vantage.com wrote:

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> Hey I don't want to rain on anyone's parade concerning wireless, but has 
> anyone at all stopped to ask themselves if we really want all these 
> microwaves zinging around us in much higher frequency and concentration 
> than today? Don't at least some of us live here because we think the 
> environment might be a tad healthier than urban areas?
> 
> Fiber fiber fiber that's the only to go way let's concentrate and focus 
> on this - and enough fiber has to be laid so if a strand or two or seven 
> goes bad in the major trunk? down the road (I'm not a fiber expert so 
> I'm not sure of the semantics) then it's a simple matter to find another 
> strand...

Fiber optic cable comes like telephone cable: it is a bundle of
n-strands (10, 25, 50, 100, ?).  They won't be tacking up single or
double strand cables, the cables will have pile of strands and many will
remain dark for some time (and be available as backups or future
expansion, etc.).

> 
> I think Matt Crocker's financial analysis is right on the money also...
> 
> -Roy
> 

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