 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
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Sterling Heights, MI | Last Mile Will cable ever lay last mile fiber? Or will other network upgrades around their current system let them compete with verizon for the next decade.... |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by baineschile:Will cable ever lay last mile fiber? Or will other network upgrades around their current system let them compete with verizon for the next decade.... They will when they need to. You can already get a direct fiber drop from most MSO business class divisions so they have the technology. They have ZERO reason right now to shoulder the expense of running FTTH though. Coax has a lot of life left in it for the majority of people and the 1GHz upgrade extends it even more.
Also, Verizon, FiOS specifically, is a very localized threat to most cable companies. Verizon doesn't serve a very large part of the country, so in the areas where FiOS is the competing product, Cable can roll out DOCSIS 3.0 surgically. |
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Probably not, ftt curb/node/neighboorhood and some variant of wireless from there to the house will probably be the next evolutionary stage. |
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1 edit | Wireless would actually be a step back, unless you're talking about wireless plant extension.
The attenuation and SNR through the air versus through the coax makes using the existing coax a no brainer.
Fiber to the home is seriously overkill for most home users. |
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