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What do you mean by saying the wire is cheap? Obviously you can’t send much high frequency data down the wire but each wire could only be used for one call at a
by dan-robertson 6y ago
What do you mean by saying the wire is cheap? Obviously you can’t send much high frequency data down the wire but each wire could only be used for one call at a time for much of the company’s history, so more wires were needed. What effect does that have on the cost? And surely the complexity is still in the CO with the internet, or am I missing something?
- tenebrisalietum 6y ago> And surely the complexity is still in the CO with the internet Your cable modem (which has a CPU and does high-speed signaling) or your FIOS box is much more complicated than an analog phone. The carrier-grade router on the other end of your cable modem is really just a bigger version of routers you buy off the shelf or for enterprises. It's literally routing IP packets in the same way. Whereas you have to have a whole switching system at the other end of an analog voice CO. (Or an operator making physical connections if we're still in the 1800's). The best you can do for yourself in that world today is get an PBX system like an old NEC NEAX box or similar, but you're still not going to be on the same level as the CO.