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With fiber, that's solved by putting fiber in the ground in installation, to then upgrade the switches at each end as necessary. Kind of like what electric uti
by Natanael_L 10y ago
With fiber, that's solved by putting fiber in the ground in installation, to then upgrade the switches at each end as necessary.
Kind of like what electric utilities already do with small growing industries.
- webXL 10y agoOkay, but what's the incentive for providers to upgrade the switches?
- freeone3000 10y agoYou pay them money.
- webXL 10y agoThat's not an incentive for monopolies. They'll take your money and not necessarily use it for new infrastructure. Things like increasing employee benefits (gov't social engineering / "god given right"), cost of maintaining outdated technology because "utilities need to be affordable by everyone!", lobbying, good 'ol fashion profit taking, etc. Why pay for better switches when you're not sure about your labor costs in 5 years, or your own retirement portfolio?