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| posh it's only a "dieing" technology to those who have access to cable and DSL (or in some cases FTTH). In the areas that only have DSL, well, it's a very viable alternative to dial-up.
One day though, the telco's will [u]have[/u] to upgrade to FTTH, for both the country and the city (cities firs, of course). Once this happens, well, I think cable will have a serious run for their money.
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| I think cable is posed to deploy fiber to the home very quickly.
Fiber is run already from the headend to the node. That leaves them with just replacing the coax with fiber and changing out some equipment at the headend.
You could say cable companies have already begun the changover. They are upgrading equipment to IP type of equipment, everything is ready to move onto an IP network, basically just throw the switch in the end (not quite that easy but you get the picture).
I do not think the cable companies have a thing to worry about. They sit back, let there pockets build, then take that money and do an all out deployment from just the node box, which will costs far less than a full deployment like Verizon had to do. The cable companies have the upper hand right now.
There is no need for them to upgrade to fiber all the way to the home, yet. But I think they will. Many small cable companies already are, not because they have to but because it is easier to maintain such a plant. | | |
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kudos:5 | said by keyboard5684:I think cable is posed to deploy fiber to the home very quickly. Fiber is run already from the headend to the node. That leaves them with just replacing the coax with fiber and changing out some equipment at the headend. You could say cable companies have already begun the changover. They are upgrading equipment to IP type of equipment, everything is ready to move onto an IP network, basically just throw the switch in the end (not quite that easy but you get the picture). If cable companies have already begun the changeover, then it is news to them.
They're pretty dedicated to their very asymmetrical deployment, (very late but) now about to enter its 3rd generation while still married to the old CableTV layout.
You have to admire their ability to continue to squeeze blood out of this turnip, but so say that they've begun to transition to FTTP is to claim an intention that simply doesn't exist and to ignore a stubbornness that does.
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| I did not say that "they've begun to transition to FTTP". I said they are poised to deploy fiber to the home.
Read my post. I said that they are sitting back, letting there cash build, already have fiber to the node, and can easily run fiber to the home and tear out the coax that last 1/2 mile. Cable systems have become so loaded that the nodes have been split to be so small that deployment of fiber to the home is just a small jump.
I also said there is no need to do fiber to the home, yet. It is smarter to continue to sell what they have to many happy people (no, techies always want more), let there cash build, and then when need be quickly deploy that last little length of fiber. Cable plants are poised to go, the fiber is there, and the systems are there, it is just a matter of when. | |
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Hingham, MA | I think you underestimate the node sizes in many cases... maybe in some places it's a 1/2 mile, but over a lot of the system it's larger...
And you underestimate the costs of replacing 100% of the equipment as well... honestly I doubt their costs would really be that much lower than what Verizon is spending, except for the fact that the price of fiber equipment is likely to drop over time (but costs of labor tend to increase over time, so one wonders) | |
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