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I assumed that we had switched to some sort of switching infrastructure a long time ago, where you wouldn’t pull every single copper wire all the way to the exc

• myself248 5y ago
  Outdoor infrastructure is built and maintained on the timescale of decades and centuries. It's not like software that you just apt-get upgrade. If we were building from scratch today, that might be how we'd do that, but for it to be done that way now, the technology would've had to be proven, reliable, affordable, environmentally rugged, and better than every alternative back in the 60s or 70s.