On 10/15/19 1:51 PM, Rod Beck wrote:
These are large 19th century buildings with courtyards. I have seen lots of activity on this street - fiber being pulled from manhole and gear being installed in cable manholes. Corning on the cables.
Sounds like a fiber-to-the-curb deployment with G.FAST as the last "mile". They run fiber to the nearest pedestal then install a small G.FAST ONU/DPU at the pedestal fed by that fiber then delivering potentially 500-1000Mbps over the last few 100ft into the existing building on existing copper. Saves them from having to pull new drops which can get very expensive. It's a bit of a stop-gap to a full FTTH deployment, but it'll get you very usable service for now and is relatively easily upgraded to full FTTH in the future by just pulling a real fiber drop and hooking it up to the existing fiber that's being used to feed the G.FAST ONU/DPU. A lot of the G.FAST ONU/DPUs support VDSL2 fallback which they'll use if the copper turns out to be especially terrible, too long, or the customer doesn't want more than 50-100Mbps since the VDSL CPEs are somewhat significantly cheaper than G.FAST. Might be where "VDSL" came from. -- Brandon Martin