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To: elmatador who wrote (5416)	10/3/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

el, re: city carriers in Europe, the USA There have been many false starts by municipalities to do their own fiber networks. Most of their successes have been in their own I-Nets, or Municipal Institutional Networks, but not where it meets the needs of Joe Citizen. I have consulted to some large city municipalities in the past in establishing SONET backbone networks for distance learning and other institutional applications, including tele- depositions and remote arraignments for the courts, traffic surveillance systems, community center continuing ed activities, and so forth. Again, however, these did not extend to the ordinary household, they were strictly for city business and social services. A few exceptions to this. Some recent fiber to the home exercises have been done in Palo Alto, but there has been nothing notable to report there yet. Earlier attempts in Annaheim and Houston were more on the order of setting up rights of way grids for carriers, and in some cases they were used to mitigate or prevent unsynchronized and disruptive construction work going on in the streets clogging up traffic ad infinitum. I think that Seattle did some good things with fiber a while back, being an early adopter of Gigabit Ethernet in the loop, but here too this was limited to a backbone with limited reach, and probably serving only a handful of muni buildings, some libraries and schools. Maybe someone else can offer some examples of some municipal governments who have successfully constructed competitive carrier scenarios that extend into residential end user spaces? Regards, Frank Coluccio