Re: geo short vs long term? [Re: Geo pros and cons]

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

> In theory, it seems easier to lay fiber over short distances, but this 
> is one of those cases where the difference between theory and practice 
> is even greater in practice than in theory. In practice, you get into 
> things like right of ways that prevent crossing streets, traffic 
> pattern that are not local, satellites that don't particularly care 
> about imediate proximity, or the simple fact that laying fiber accross 
> a body of water is simpler that doing the same accross a mountain 
> ridge. Then, you get competition between providers, and all sorts of 
> non technical reasons such as trust, business affinity, etc.
From my experience in building pan-continental networks, traffic tend 
to be very optimized within the network. Where it leaves is as you say 
a completely different question.

- kurtis -