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From: "Keenan Tims" <ktims@stargate.ca>
If we assume that a residential deployment pulls one strand (or perhaps a pair) to each prem, similar to current practice for POTS, there's a resource allocation problem if I want to buy TV services from provider A and Internet services from provider B (or maybe I want to provision a private WAN to my place of work). This could be done with WDM equipment by the muni in the L1 model, or at L2, but it isn't something that's often mentioned. I suspect L2 wins here, at least on cost.
Or are we going forward under the assumption that all of this will be rolled into "the Internets" and delivery that way and competition in that space will be sufficient?
I was planning AE, and to deploy 3 pair per drop, except on multiunit building, where my overbuild ratio would be between 1.6 and 1.2 or so. 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