I've been searching for a few days on information about Google Fiber's Kansas City deployment. While I wouldn't call Google secretive in this particular case, they haven't been very outgoing on some of the technologies. Based on the equipment they have deployed there is speculation they are doing both GPON and active thernet (point2point). I found this presentation: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research... It has a very good summary of the tradeoffs we've been discussing regarding home run fibers with active ethernet compared with GPON, including costs of the eletronics compared to trenching, the space required in the CO, and many of the other issues we've touched on so far. Here's an article with some economics from several different deployments: http://fastnetnews.com/fiber-news/175-d/4835-fiber-economics-quick-and-dirty Looks like $500-$700 in capex per residence is the current gold standard. Note that the major factor is the take rate; if there are two providers doing FTTH they are both going to max at about a 50% take rate. By having one provider, a 70-80% take rate can be driven. Even with us a 4%, 10 year government bond, a muni network could finance out a $700/prem build for $7.09 per month! Add in some overhead and there's no reason a muni-network couldn't lease FTTH on a cost recovery bases to all takers for $10-$12 a month (no Internet or other services included). Anyone know of more info about the Google Fiber deployment? -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/