 gwionwild colonial boyPremium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | Unproven and troubled? ... and I'll bet SBC's had fib-op trunks since the early 90's in their own plant. The Pentagon's LAN is fiber, has been since Marconi was called Fore Systems, I remember the contract - I suppose that was a testbed? "Ah, give it a try, worst thing that happens is it crashes around our feet and we nuke Sweden by accident"... what's scary isn't that they may have been fudging the truth for PR, the scary thing is that a telco exec might have actually believed fib-op is some kind of exotic trial tech.
Of course, implicitly myopic arrogance is nothing new. That part -- "who could possibly need more than 640k RAM", right? -- that part's as old as technology, itself, and, had people like Edison and Ford and -- hell, DaVinci, for that matter -- adopted a "who'll ever need ___" logic, we would be lighting our gaslights, tonight, so we could find our ways out to the stable to feed the motor some oats. Planning for today's the easy part of technology. It's building future proof networks that challenges us... otherwise, we toss money on top of money, forever, playing a game of catch-up.
It's not about speed. It's never been about speed. Characterizing fib-op as an "internet technology" is like calling copper wire an "internet technology". They're naked carrier media, period. No more, no less. Welcome to the late twentieth century, Mr. T. 
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