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To: elmatador who wrote (4693)	12/20/2001 7:43:40 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Ossy, responding to your last two posts: That's why I say the US has peaked: because it is engessado. What a hoot! Who do I write a letter to about this, in that event? My congressional representatives, if this is true, must also be engessado'ed, no? So, you think that the situation that I described has national borders, do you? As much as I don't like agreeing with you out of an innate sense of denial, I will, nonetheless. When I see what's going on in Sweden, Italy and Canada, among a growing number of other locations that are stringing fiber and placing antennas liberally to residential neighborhoods, I have no choice but to agree with you to some degree. If I didn't I'd be contradicting myself, no? But lest we forget, the "I" in both IEEE and ITU-T stands for international. But your (reiteration of my) point is well taken ;) This legacy situation in the last mile reminds me of the twisted pair cartel in the commercial buildings space. Same players, same outcome, only a different venue. See: Message 15535231 ... wherein I state: <delete> "Fiber, on the other hand, allows distances that let you connect to just about anywhere on campus, or beyond in some cases, from a central point, which allows one to consume far less and make better use of space, while also reducing the demands on Power and AC and raised flooring, not to mention the sizing of the actual LAN resources in a far more efficient manner. In a 40 story building with a large floorplate this could mean the difference between 170 equipment rooms, and one that only requires about four (4), with smaller unconditioned cross-connect spaces on every floor to transition the vertical riser fibers to the horizontal drops to the desk. <delete> <delete> "But the folks whose livelihoods are dependent on a lot of steel and furnishings going in and a lot of interior construction taking place, are usually the same ones who are responsible for assigning space, too. "As my grandpa used to say, "Pleash! Don't get me shtarted!" ... on the copper-centric trades, and the facilities and design & engineering folks who make up EI[A]/TIA/BICSI, and life-long supply chain relationships, whose collective assembly represents what would almost appear to be a cartel that could give lessons to the likes of OPEC." FAC