I expect things are going to change as IoT takes off - security cameras, baby monitors, start to push video upstream - that makes a difference.

And then there are the efforts of cell carriers to push traffic onto home wifi - more and more facetime video will also add load.

Miles

Electrical consumption of the equipment is different and then the environmental conditioning that larger electronic load.

Let's not forget that actual consumer bit consumption changes very little whether they have 20 megs or 2 gigs provisioned and available.

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions

Midwest Internet Exchange

The Brothers WISP

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From: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2019 12:20:36 PM
Subject: Re: Last Mile Design

Speaking of which, the Grant County Public Utility District (Washington
State), has wired active ethernet all over their rural county.

Seems to me that the cost difference between splitters & switches is a
pretty minor component of deploying FTTH - the costs are in the
trenching, and the fiber.  What you put on the poles, or in the lawn
furniture, is a pretty minor cost component. Though... getting power to
the switches might be an issue, less so if you're deploying on power poles.

Miles Fidelman

On 2/9/19 12:59 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
>> If I had to build a consumer broadband network and had the budget
>> (and owned the fibre) to do so, I'd definitely always choose Active-E:
>
> For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to
> the nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard
> of. We have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them.
>
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