October 2009 Archives

"Chunghwa launched its fibre network in March 2004 and plans to cover 80% of the population with the infrastructure by the end of 2010"
 - Telegeography

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Granted, Taiwan is not the largest area in the world that needs to be covered by fiber, but the point is that they get it. Fiber is the way and they will be there.

Hopefully fiber deployment will have some per mile/per capita figure that equates to an increase in GDP formula that can be applied to all countries. If we then build an open, National Fiber Network we can apply that formula to ourselves and forecast how we will pay down our $1.4 Trillion deficit. 

No other infrastructure, or industry will be able to create enough value and expand faster than our spending and debt.
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Central Africa has a broadband plan, based on a fiber core and being
funded by the World Bank with US$. From the fiber core running along an oil pipeline (right of way) regional networks will extend out to provide access
and services to multiple countries vastly improving Internet reach
and use.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, The Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe and Sudan will all particiate and benefit from this design and overall project. It is yet another sign, and quite a significant one, that the rest of the world is moving forward with new fiber-based designs to improve connectivity and ultimately their way of life.

Central African Backbone project goes ahead
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