-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/Mar/15 02:42, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
No. But that's because they are using the fibre pedestals to deliver
a high bandwidth DSL service. The condo customers still get DSLon copper, but because the copper pipe is so short they can crank a hell of a lot of bps over it. Enough to deliver HDTV, at whatever compression rate they use to their set top boxes. It's way more then the 5 Mb/s up/down (S)DSL I would be quite happy with :-) I still don't get why operators do this. In my part of the world, a well-known service provider runs FTTC and then runs VDSL into the home. Ummh... In a previous country I used to work, a network had copper lines deployed as internal last mile in every building they serviced on the back of some MSAN's. When they upgraded their basement infrastructure to fibre, they thought they could get away from having to run fibre to each office/home in the building by delivering that over VDSL. For some reason, even at 6m distances, running the HD-based IPTv service across VDSL didn't work. I think the engineers in that network didn't even bother wasting their time fixing that. In the end, running fibre from the basement to each office/home did the trick - it's not like they were starving... In 2000, a big mobile carrier in an East African country was just about the first network to build Metro fibre that hit lots of commercial buildings. What did they do it with - run E1's for voice. This was their fixed-line solution at the time. Why they didn't run Ethernet instead (in 2000, when the rest of East Africa barely knew what Metro-E was, let alone many parts of the world) escapes me. If it's not fibre to the home or office gateway, where it makes no difference to run either copper or fibre from the basement or the curb, it's foolish. Mark. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU8nDwAAoJEGcZuYTeKm+GyAkQALGw6GKKzQ7FvUM1h7gGyMsz TY7PaCexzAHBYYV/Wgq/oJxBKoj0CCwQZwy1krA6R1xuSDlueuUqxBc153wAZKUm P3lI23bIG/IdSVi0LnjU84oM/06Q0mK7nwHAR7LGcHIdZaBrffXnVMh99eZGp0pN AHh7q2AadUHnxDSwyNXU571E9LgsZ2fIrr4ZM3BP/L510X1Fs0TWmftXjOPX7Bc3 DjJfFCWpHr/AIFVEdgq40Nwexk4HzknsUoGthm3yMykv3LQ+vqdVodCZuly0tLbs q6YbWntv+d2fsNwDDkUowY4bOZoJXiM2qngvBXmN6dMmp3AymtlZC6x+iJusgdly g3iwMNSgh4Sab2Gtdb24AvPpVNx6NkE28QUGTPvtSweUAf7IMUog3Ax8XZcJws57 toi2UJ9Q3nXFN6XyzKMvCUrVwAnZkJcP3pDdFFRB5p4Bqa+ZyZAlWii1bXVXF68r QMDL5Oj1QaaAv4tK31zd8T6E+rHnvbn+TQ7mXx626/fF8O6KKjWcD9z1WiouEKCX kIq0InQeI9BCxpuSrfvQSH+nWn/Sw40sedoU4VlPOipaUwGa5nju/rmNcDP0evP4 2JprZSCrahMJko82JPxdwOPzl80Jv+0N/ofw571JHmWv+mmwqsN++lpvzSg2XaoT P8fH+p+lz9wDvW7NfIvZ =uFe1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----