 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| VDSL will be enough for internet only and even then, only for another few years.
It is a VERY narrow fit. So narrow that I am seriously concerned that it will be outdated before it's ever put into place. Is that 25mbps running on the same ATM as their existing DSL services, that carries an 18% overhead? If so there's only around 20mbps of real usable space. They've stated that 9mbps is needed for HDTV. That leaves just 2mbps for internet and other services.
If you want to do TV or otherwise build a modern content delivery platform, get fiber and get it over with. Verizon will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by djrobx: Verizon will be laughing all the way to the bank. No, they won't. They don't compete with Bellsouth in the ILEC arena.
I agree Bellsouth and SBC need to quit penny pinching and just run FTTH. |
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 juilinsandarTexas GoonerPremium
join:2000-07-17
San Benito, TX
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said by djrobx:and even then, only for another few years. It is a VERY narrow fit. So narrow that I am seriously concerned that it will be outdated before it's ever put into place. Is that 25mbps running on the same ATM as their existing DSL services, that carries an 18% overhead? If so there's only around 20mbps of real usable space. They've stated that 9mbps is needed for HDTV. That leaves just 2mbps for internet and other services. If you want to do TV or otherwise build a modern content delivery platform, get fiber and get it over with. Verizon will be laughing all the way to the bank. The sad thing is that Verizon isn't competing directly wth SBC, at least not in my area which is served by Time Warner and SBC. If they were, I'd choose the phat pipe of FTTH rather than the midsized pipe of vdsl2. |
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| reply to Matt
They will deploy FTTH once their failed roll-out of VDSL is complete.  |
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| I wish I could find the old link but there was a quote from the SBC VP in charge of this. He basically said if he guess wrong on this no big deal, they were only spending $4,000,000,00.00 on this, not a lot of money in SBC's over all picture. |
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| I think you're referring to this - »SBC's 4 Billion Dollar Bet. |
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| Yep, that was it. Thanks! |
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