26 Aug
2009
26 Aug
'09
3:29 p.m.
CON: active devices in the OSP. On 8/26/2009 12:06 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
jim deleskie wrote:
I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to homes, it's outdated before we even finish.
I disagree. I much prefer fiber to the curb with copper to the home. Of course, I haven't had a need for 100mb/s to the house which I can do on copper, much less need for gigabit.
Pro's for copper from curb:
1) power over copper for POTS 2) Majority of cuts occur on customer drops and copper is more resilient to splicing by any monkey.
Jack