Scott Helms wrote:
Is it more expensive to home-run every home than to put splitters in the neighborhood? Yes. Is it enough more expensive that the tradeoffs cannot be overcome? I remain unconvinced.
This completely depends on the area and the goals of the network. In most cases for muni networks back hauling everything is more expensive.
Bot of you are wrong. There is no reason fiber is more expensive than copper, which means SS is cheap, as cheap as copper. As most of the cost is cable laying, which is little sensitive to the number of twisted pairs or fibers in the cable, PON, with splitters and lengthy drop cables (if you want a fiber shared by many subscribers, you need a lengthy drop cables from a splitter), can not be less expensive than SS. PON, which is expensive, is preferred by some carriers merely because it makes competition impossible. Masataka Ohta