[SLL] Seattle to get its Click! ?

[Creede Lambard]

Glenn Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:10:41PM -0700, Francois Caen wrote:
>   
>> just heard this guy on kuow:
>> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003833680_brier13.html 
>>     
>
> This could be great IFF it's done right.  If somebody wrote a decent set of
> requirements I might actually trust Qwest to implement them properly.  I'm
> actually not real sure I'd trust Allen's outfit not to make it Windows-only,
> and I know I do *not* trust Verizon to ... there's no way I can put that
> delicately, but I don't think I have to.  
>
> Speakeasy could probably do it, if their Best Buy bosses let'em.  Cortland
> might could; I don't know if they can hit the whole city easily or not,
> although if the city was greasing the skids on getting easments for
> repeaters, it probably wouldn't be hard.
>
> Not sure I'd want to trust anyone else to it... but that's just me and my
> innate paranoia. :)
>
> -- Glenn
>
>   
Dang, and I just signed a lease for a house 1/4 mile north of the city 
limits. I wonder if I can run a fiber optic cable under 145th from Las 
Margaritas.

Of course if it's going to be 3 to 8 years before it's operational, I 
won't feel quite so bad.

My needs are pretty modest. A fat pipe and an IP address at my end of 
it. I'm not sure how they'd be able to make that Windows-only (not 
releasing specs for the fiber->PC interface, maybe), but I guess if you 
expect the worst and it comes out better than you expected, you can 
always be pleasantly surprised. :)