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I likewise wasn't impressed. The analogy was tenuous at best, and the author made it painfully clear he didn't have a clue what he was talking about when he sai
by Xichekolas 18y ago
I likewise wasn't impressed. The analogy was tenuous at best, and the author made it painfully clear he didn't have a clue what he was talking about when he said:
> "A future possibility is to buy your own fiber, the way you might buy a solar panel for your home."
... and connect it to what?
I mean, what the hell was the guy thinking? A solar panel is something that sits on your house, like a TV antenna. The effect that buying your own fiber would have is about the same as buying your own natural gas lines. You can't exactly switch natural gas providers on a whim either.
Maybe I should go into business selling reporters their own fiber. I'm sure they'd go for it if I said the magic words 'Net Neutrality'. Then this author could have a nice new spool of fiber sitting in his basement, to go with the solar panel on his roof.
- davidw 18y agoHe's not a reporter, and actually seems like a pretty bright guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu
- khafra 18y agoPerhaps he envisions local communities forming groups like Home Owners' Associations and pooling their resources to create MANs, for fast, off-the-grid resource sharing. Once a few of these spring up in the same general area--say, a few neighborhoods in the bay area--it'd take a gross failure of imagination to avoid interconnecting them.
- wmf 18y agoThe other end of the fiber is intended to connect to an Internet exchange point with multiple transit ISPs available.