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On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:17:24 PM Jay Ashworth wrote:
So we'll assume we could get 4 for 22k to make the arithmetic easy, and that means if we can put 44 people on that, that the MRC cost is 500 dollars a month for a gigabit. That is clearly not consumer pricing. Was consumer pricing the assertion?
I think Owen's pricing is based on 10Gbps router ports (Owen, correct me if I'm wrong).
This is not the only way to sell 10Gbps services.
Having said that, in context of home broadband, I was referring to AN's (Access Nodes), particularly based on Active-E (you don't generally place consumer customers directly on to 10Gbps router ports).
The 10Gbps ports on an Active-E AN are in the same 1U chassis as the 44x Gig-E ports. And depending on how many you buy from vendors for your Access network, you can get pretty decent deals with good return if you get great uptake and have a sweet price point.
That's the assertion Mark made, right there: that you could hook 44 GigE's to 4 10G's, and get "pretty decent deals". Specifically, Mark said (at top of thread): """ If the provider is able to deliver 1Gbps to every home (either on copper or fibre) with little to no uplink oversubscription (think 44x customer-facing Gig-E ports + 4x 10Gbps uplink ports), essentially, there is no limit to what services a provider and its partners can offer to its customers. """ So that implies he really did mean 44x GigE to end-prem, from 4 $5500 10G ports -- or, $500/home in MRC *cost* to the provider. I'm confused. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274