Depends on what type of OC (Optical Connect) they want an OC 3, OC 12, OC 48, or an OC 192 optical ring. Cost's for these types of services are VERY expensive, including equipment to run it. They still run hard copper lines, T1's and T3's, which are their more common services. These services are also being used by your providers to deliver multiple services to the consumer. Depending on where you live a T1 (Fractional or Integrated) can run from $200-$1,200 a month. A T1 breaks down into 24 common lines, and these common lines can be broken down even further to provide you your common MHz connects. So let's take my connection for example from ATT, I'm on a 6 MHz DSL connect. This is coming off a T1 that is ran into my area, or possibly a T3, I'd have to check the map plans to verify, but with the monthly fee I am paying which is either around $60 or $70 a month, depending on usage, and seeing more people in this area who are also using these services, it's more than paying for the T1 (or T3) service and also covering the major line feeding the T1 (or T3), which my company provides to ATT on an OC connect. This OC connect also is the backbone for services within the city itself. The city run's off this OC ring. It drops, the back up ring kicks in, but if that goes down, EVERYTHING goes down in the city until it's repaired. With ATT's U-Verse services, they are running their own fiber to provide a faster service in the major areas of a populated area. This fiber they are running is using our provided fiber to connect them to the World Wide Web. This running of the fiber is very costly, which is why they are only running it in certain areas in which they know the consumer will pay for this service. I probably won't see this service for a decade or longer, but I also have wireless services that suit my needs in which I piggyback any wireless provider in my area for free using my companies equipment, due to my company having an agreement with these companies for usage due to providing them certain incentives, like faster diagnosing for a repair on either a hard line, fiber line, or even an IP for their customers. All the information that passes any internet connect, even wireless, has to go through our equipment, and of course everything is logged per an IP addy. I don't work in the department who controls this, but they are reviewing the updates that Microsoft has sent out online to the consumers to see exactly what they did and to verify if any wrong doing was done on their end. The OS you are running on your computer(s) is a paid legal contract with Microsoft when you purchased it and registered it with them. What is being looked at, is did Microsoft infringe on this legal contract by the way they submitted the download for the new Windows 10 OS. I don't know all the details, due to not working this area, but I do hear things by word of mouth at work.
But to give you an ideal of what an OC connect costs, let's take an OC 3 the smallest, which is 100 T1's. The costs for this type of service could range from $15K to $50K a month depending on the type of services they want to run on the fiber. Speed for this service is 155 Megabits per second. An OC 192 is 4 OC 48's, you can average the costs by looking at the cost for the OC 3 and figure it out, but it's speeds are 9.6 Gigs per second, which is the fastest you can get in the World.
And yes, I will agree with you on people not reading before doing.
And I will also agree with you on how the FCC takes part in particulars. They don't always do what's right, but hey, they are also human...LOL.
And that PIC, GREAT LAUGH, I needed that tonight, been a stressful few days
And keep the info. coming about Windows 10. Good stuff, I'm not putting it down, I think eventually everyone will have to switch to it, but at least make it a choice of to when, not do it now or else. As for it being an OS to use for business, it still needs more looking into, but so far my company will not switch, they will stay with the current business OS they have been using for many a years.
