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To: Rob S. who wrote (18867)	1/12/2007 2:29:55 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Rob, I understand your point with respect to: "'personal viral broadband' is not a single application - it is a culmination of things that are finally starting to come together." But in its purest form, beyond the long-awaited fulfillment of the areas you've been focused on, it needn't always be as complex as you suggest, although the pressures produced by state-of-the-art technologies are usually unrelenting and usually find adoption. "While moving to the next generation of fiber equipment can be costly, much of the fiber infrastructure is in place and can be expanded. In some areas there is still plenty of dark fiber." As an interesting aside, in some of the locales where fiber back haul is often needed - as would be the case along highways, large urban streets and intersections - there often exists a supply of dark fiber that is all by untouchable for anyone other than those who installed it. I'm referring to the fiber belonging to the municipalities' own DOTs that install and reserve the right to use it for narrowly-defined purposes, such as traffic signal controls, internal intercoms and video links in support of traffic-monitoring and other forms of surveillance networks. I'm bringing this up because it's still fresh in my mind after discussing a micro-cell scheme earlier this evening that uses lamp posts and other perches in public areas, ultimately making maximum use of the fiber in the ground in a manner similar to that which you suggested. FAC