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Altamonte Springs, FL
clubs: | FTTH in the woods Wow i cant believe that Lafayette, Louisiana is deploying FTTH and Im stuck with cable in a major city. | |
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Tzale
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| Re: FTTH in the woods said by steelingbox  :Wow i cant believe that Lafayette, Louisiana is deploying FTTH and Im stuck with cable in a major city. Altamonte Springs is a major city? News to me....
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steelingbox
join:2005-07-09
Altamonte Springs, FL
clubs: | Re: FTTH in the woods orlando ! | |
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Tzale
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| Re: FTTH in the woods said by steelingbox :orlando ! Yeah, it's a suburb of Orlando... I live in a town that is a suburb of New York City, yet it only has 11,000 people...
-Tzale
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steelingbox
join:2005-07-09
Altamonte Springs, FL
clubs: | Re: FTTH in the woods no dude I live in downtown orlando. | |
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fatness
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fishing | Re: FTTH in the woods According to wikipedia, Orlando and Lafayette Springs are about the same population. | |
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Tzale
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| Re: FTTH in the woods said by eakenn :*off topic & on soap box* Being a native from Orlando and having family in Lafayette, LA there is indeed a major population difference between the two cities. » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando-Ki···cal_Area» en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,···tan_areaFor people that are not from Central Florida or Florida in general when they hear "Altamonte Springs" they one, can't say it right - they say usually: Altamontee (which usually makes people from that area cringe) and second they don't know where it is. I/we don't expect people to know where it is. That is why we say "Orlando" because everyone knows about Orlando and the evil rat (e.g. Mickey) that resides there. Technically the rat resides in Lake Buena Vista, FL - not Orlando, but that's besides the point. Anyway, the greater Orlando area has far, far more people than the greater Lafayette area. However, just like Orlando...Lafayette is growing as well in population. *end off topic and end soap box* Thanks for the clarification... It's the first time I heard of that town.
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| whiteyonenh
join:2004-08-09
Keene, NH
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| said by steelingbox :Wow i cant believe that Lafayette, Louisiana is deploying FTTH and Im stuck with cable in a major city. I would question what makes you think Lafayette, LA is "in the woods" with a population of over 500,000 across the whole metro area, there is no way I could even conceive that someone would think this was "in the woods" as you say. This caught my eye only because I used to live there, and still have people that live there that I talk to from time to time. | |
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steelingbox
join:2005-07-09
Altamonte Springs, FL
clubs: | Re: FTTH in the woods Well I am speaking of when I was last in Lafayette, 20+ years ago! Things may have changed since then. | |
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| jjeffeory
join:2002-12-04
USA
| said by steelingbox :Wow i cant believe that Lafayette, Louisiana is deploying FTTH and Im stuck with cable in a major city. I've never heard of Altamonte Springs, FL. Oh it's near Orlando... Google Earth is my friend... | |
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pnh102
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Mount Airy, MD
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| What Milestone? quote:
Construction is about to begin on the building that is planned to be the hub of the project...
What kind of milestone is this? Heck, I could go and say "I'm about to do XYZ" and not bother to do anything and claim it is a milestone!
Wake us up when someone actually gets service from this racket.
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Tzale
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| Re: What Milestone? said by pnh102 : quote:
Construction is about to begin on the building that is planned to be the hub of the project...
What kind of milestone is this? Heck, I could go and say "I'm about to do XYZ" and not bother to do anything and claim it is a milestone! Wake us up when someone actually gets service from this racket. Typical bashing... I don't know why you or anyone else would even care unless you lived there.. So why bother posting?
When they finally say everyone in the city can get it, you're going to find something else to complain about, right?
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| switchman
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2 edits | Steps up on soapbox
While I usually do not reply to this type of post, I really am tired of seeing these types of of post from people have no clue as to what it takes to implement a fiber network.
I will state that the vast majority of people have no clue as to what it takes to design and build this type of network. There is a huge amount of work just design the network before you begin any construction.
Your design architecture has to to ensure that you are not locked in to a network that cannot grow or change as needs change. You have to spec each and every piece of equipment down to the bolts that hold the equipment to the floor. What are the fiber paths for the distribution versus the backbone paths. Are you going to trench it or go aerial or both. Where are your junction/distribution nodes. Are you going to use separate fibers/CWDM/DWDM as the distribution method. What technology/architecture are you going to use as the dristibution method for the services you will be offering, switched or dedicated wavelengths per service type.
You have to plan how you are going to troubleshoot the network down to the set top box and what tools you will need to do this. You need all of the back office systems in place to support the roll-out, how are you going to process the an order for service, how are you going to bill your customers. How are you going to manage the network. Just because you have built a fiber network, now you have to negotiate/work with content providers to actually put something over the fiber.
The Fiber Fairy does not just pop out and wave a magic wand and it all appears. So if they are truly at the point that they are ready to begin construction, then yes, it is a major milestone.
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join:2002-12-04
USA | Re: What Milestone? Very good run down on the various things necessary for ANY network. Many current players have NOT done all of these things. | |
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join:2004-03-19
Here | IMO still, building the "Central Office" is a lot easier than actually building the last mile. | |
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pnh102
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Mount Airy, MD
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| said by switchman :While I usually do not reply to this type of post, I really am tired of seeing these types of of post from people have no clue as to what it takes to implement a fiber network. I don't have to know or care about what it takes to build a fiber network. If I were living in a place that boasts that a building might be coming up, but not a single person in said city can get access to said network, then that's nothing to write home about.
Maybe they should hang up a "Mission Accomplished" sign on the construction site.
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| I guess if you are not involved in the fiber industry this would not be a milestone. So do you post that you don't care about Gary Indiana fixing streets? Or how about tsunamis Indonesia? Oh, how about posting on boards for pregnancy that you think that's stupid too.
Fact is a lot of people who are involved in the fiber industry do care about big systems starting. Switchman got it partially right. In addition to the engineering that needs to be done, Lafayette spent years fighting for the right even to build this system. (See other news about the Supreme Court decision). Some other systems never even got a chance because they lost on this step. (See Geneva, Batavia, and St. Charles in IL)
I am encouraged by this type of news, not because i will directly benefit, but by the ramifications it has for the fiber industry. It will help ensure that more systems jump on the bandwagon and keep me working in years to come. | |
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Hype83
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join:2003-08-19
Lafayette, LA | Re: LUS FTTH lafayette already has a fiber ring that provides my company with internet. lafayette may not be the biggest but alot of people work and live here. it has grown alot in the recent years and have alot of big companies here. | |
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heels_fan
1.20.09 The start of Socialism
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join:2003-02-07
Columbia, TN | Small Town Fiber What would you say if I told you a small town with a population of about 8,000 has FTTH.
There are many small towns here in TN that is going FTTH
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Daarken
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| Re: Small Town Fiber you think Lafayette's fiber project is cool, you should see what cameron communications is doing. They have one of the largest parishes (county)in the state covered with fiber, and are offering a triple play package, along with covering several small towns, including Moss Bluff. | |
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