Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

The biggest expense of building and running telecom infrastructure is labor and Moore's law doesn't help you with that.



But labor does not scale linearly with bandwidth. It takes a lot of labor to dig a trench for a cable, but if you use fiber instead of copper you get much higher bandwidth for that same labor.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: