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Re: deploy and buy

The difference is that, once FTTH is in the ground, you just upgrade the equipment on the ends of the fiber and watch your speed go through the roof. As in gigabits, tens of gigabits or even hundreds of gigabits per second. Cable is going to run into problems pretty quickly even with DOCSIS 3 if fiber truns on the heat anywhere.

One big thing right now: uploads. 30 Mbps per node. FiOS has no problem doing 20 Mbit symmetric. Cable companies can't do this without breaking their networks.

Heck, even downloads are iffy. Four channels bonded gets 152 Mbps of bandwidth, shared between everyone on the node. BPON shares 622 Mbps with everyone on the node, GPON shares 2.4 Gbps. THe big difference: cable companies have an order of magnitude more subscribers per node than PON systems do, or close to it, in normal instances.

hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
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i don't see cable having any issues. they're fiber is farther out to the customers and can quickly run the last mile to fiber as well. I wouldn't doubt many new build outs and upgrades have the FTTH/HFC equipment at the nodes just for that.
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