 alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | reply to WeSRT4
Re: FTTH Well I went on the Record years ago when I declared Verizon with their FTTH FiOS was the clear winner. Verizon Stock Holders think differently, they think like some of the short sighted members on this board, that they should have used some of their Copper Infrastructure. I think AT&T is 5 years behind with their FTTN. Someone said they can just push Fiber from there to the home, but it's not that easy. I'm sure all the equipment has to be changed. So AT&T will be playing catch-up for a very long time, and their Stock Holders will be crying. |
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| Is that what they teach people in the desert?
Fiber is fiber. No need to rip out existing fiber for new one if its perfectly useful. All they would have to do is piggyback onto the box.
Its like if I went from DSL to Cable HSI in the home. I wouldnt toss out my routers and ethernet. I would just throw out the DSL modem or sell it on ebay. |
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AT&T won't have to replace customer equipment if it eventually upgrades to FTTH.
Verizon, however, will have to replace all of its equipment, including customers' set top boxes, when it eventually upgrades to a 100% IPTV platform (as it has said it will eventually). Those costs will be on top of the $30+ billion it's already spent. |
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alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA | reply to ninjatutle
said by ninjatutle:Is that what they teach people in the desert? Fiber is fiber. No need to rip out existing fiber for new one if its perfectly useful. All they would have to do is piggyback onto the box. Its like if I went from DSL to Cable HSI in the home. I wouldnt toss out my routers and ethernet. I would just throw out the DSL modem or sell it on ebay. No, The Desert is way behind in Technology, but we do have FiOS. I'm an old PacBell Telco person, so I was talking about the Electronics or Termination Equipment. I know Fiber is Fiber, but FTTN is way different than FTTH. FTTN has more equipment, and I don't think most people like the large Nodes throughout their neighborhoods.
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