On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 andrew2@one.net wrote:
we're worrying about FTTH when some of the largest carriers are still not capable of delivering ethernet handoffs in some of those same top 30 cities.
so... 'ethernet handoff' to me is 'just another access media'. I had asked at one point in time about this and part of the answer was: "people aren't asking for it" which I thought odd since probably 50% of the people asking me for 'can you get a sales person to call me about XXX' was 'a fast-e handoff at ...' (or some form of 'ethernet'). Someone, a wise person, told me that some carriers are more interested in selling 'pipe' than access, I think he meant 'sonet pipe' or 'tdm pipe'. I think we'll see FTTX become 'just another access method' as well shortly. Afterall, what's the difference between sonet/fttX/dsX/etherX if you just talk about last-mile access? (surely gear in the lastmile matters here, but if you're rolling it out to 150M locations what's 1% more locations for 'business access'?)