Friday, October 9, 2009

A National Broadband Plan needs a national fiber plan

Too often broadband policy debates get caught up in attempts to be technology neutral, losing sight of the significance of individual technologies, the most significant of which is fiber.

When you think of the Internet, you should think of fiber as the vast majority of the interconnected networks that make up the Internet are fiber. When we talk about middle mile and backhaul networks, those are most often fiber...