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| node upgrades To trial a new service, it would seem they have to specifically build out narad based node infrastructure for anything beyond 38mbit per user.
Well I'm gonna guess the the rumor mill has sorted out a preliminary month for the 20/2 upgrade as being October system wide and 50/50 for Nassau pending 100% buildout and FIOS FRANCHISE TV RIGHTS COUNTY-WIDE for 2006.
Verizon can meet 50/50 without any significant upgrades of equipmetn despite the claim that 30/5 per user is the maxwithout gpon, simply not true. If supplemental fibers need to run, that is entirely possible, but not likely as hardware upgrades are relatively inexpensive but not necessarly all the way up to 100/100 per user. Right now people assume 100% penetration of use in each fiber node, that's not realistic even with a marketing blitz and a potential triple play being 1/2 the price of cablevision's.
So, the maximum use of the nodes won't come for some time, and by that time guess what? gpon and beyond will be dirt cheap when necessary.
The clock is ticking, franchise rights will be secured soon, and TV is coming to a verizon town near you, so bring on the 20/2, 50/50. |
