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Re: Fiber is the answer. Japan has it and the US There is a lot of depolyment of FTT-Remote Terminal. Many DSL lines are supported by a fiber being laid to a Remote Terminal with a DSL aggregator (this is the fiber you see in your neighborhood). Each of those Remote Terminals can serve thousands of customers. Where a Central Office may serve 100 Remote Terminals, the same central office serves 100,000s of customers. Laying 100 fibers is not a problem.... laying 100,000 fibers to each home is EXPENSIVE.
And who is responsible for running the fiber within the existing buildings? It doesn't do anyone any good to drop a fiber on their doorstep. Someone has to wire the house, apartment building, office building and office parks.
There have been a few municipalities that have installed their own fiber loops - Palo Alto, CA is one. When they were laying the fiber they offered local business and residents the option to access the fiber - for a monthly fee and a fixed cost to bring the fiber to your location. The monthly cost was $100 for 10Mbps - not bad. The fixed cost was $10,000!!!
I think fiber to the neighborhood, and wireless (WiMAX???) to the home is the best option The fiber to the Remote Terminal is already there - put a Pole and Antenna on the RT - DONE. Plus you get the benefit that your services follow you wherever you go.
The wireless access may possibly be future proof. It would probably be much easier to replace the electronics in a transmitter on a pole than to replace every interface to every fiber to every home?!?!? |
