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centered around university, waverly, and bryant.

I know 365 Forest (condo building) would have been about $3k to add, since the fiber was in the basement.

There is a utilities guy at city hall who has maps, but I don't have the current ones (I last checked in 2008).

When I move back to SFBA next year, I am either getting a house with fiber in PA, or a condo with IP Networks fiber up in 8th/Folsom area of SoMA. 10GE for the win

It would be an interesting niche to work with landlords to wire up their properties, set up some colo space, and rent out house + cage/racks + fiber on a quarterly basis to startup teams. I'd much prefer a (really nice) house, shared with team, to a bunch of crappy apartments, a daily commute, and an office-building office. Although at that point, fixed wireless becomes an option too..

http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/utl/news/details.asp?New...

hm. I wonder if this is public data, and how many people would sue me if I went through the effort to dig it up and publish it? many price quotes in the co-location industry are protected by NDA... I wonder if fiber locations are too?

private fiber maps are sometimes kept private (post 9-11) on vague "anti-terrorism" grounds.

however, the palo alto metro fiber map is public. I just don't happen to have a copy on my iPad, sorry.

wow... this comment is hit 4 on my google search for "palo alto metro fiber map" and the rest seem to be fairly useless. I'll spend some time poking around and maybe contact the city after I sleep.

but thanks, this is useful.