From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 05-Jul-14 07:55, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
   > On 7/5/2014 7:32 AM, Jishnu Mukerji wrote:   
   >> So you are correct, unless for some odd reason the customer wants   
   >> to pay for installing fiber all over the house nothing of the sort   
   >> is going to happen, specially when there is pre-installed copper   
   >> and coax.   
   >   
   > Back in the 1980s the company I worked for was the first occupants   
   > of the re-purposed Rincon Annex Post Office building, and as part of   
   > the installation,, they paid for a custom cable that ran 6 or 8 pairs   
   > of copper and two pairs of fiber to EVERY cube in the warren.   
   >   
   > The company is long gone and I have no idea who occupies the space or   
   > if any of the New Age insanity remains, but I wonder if any of that   
   > fiber was ever lighted.  (And no, I don't think the copper supported   
   > UTP Ethernet because the Macintosh people ran their own Firewire to   
   > cubes that were to access the communal laser printer.   
      
   Lots of folks bought into fiber vendors' claims that copper couldn't   
   handle anything better than 10Mb/s.  Then 100Mb/s Ethernet appeared,   
   which only required slightly better quality copper, and a few years   
   after that 1Gb/s Ethernet.  Interest in fiber mostly evaporated.   
      
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