What I'm getting at is architectures. Traditional roll outs use telco style ring or star architectures. In the power industry you NEVER run a separate cable back to the power station. Instead a mesh architecture is used and we copied it. It is unusual for us to run fiber for more than 1km, VERY unusual. Most ccts are around 3-400m to the nearest switch. But be aware that a switch may have 8 ports in use, with 3 customers. Just like the power substations.
Hi Richard. I'm sure this is a lot different for you as a primarily layer 2 provider, whereas people like us have to provide all sorts of crazy services, like MPLS VPN's, AVVID, etc over the circuits we provide to customers we have to have a lot more intelligence closer to the edge of the network than Citylink appears to be. So, whilst I agree that its about architectures, it's also about services. Some architectures are better than others for different things, but I guess you knew that. Cheers. --- James Tyson Moebius Systems Ltd http://www.moebius.co.nz/ - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog