LazMan
join:2003-03-26
Angus, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
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Re: FTTH dare-devil fiber install -- worth-it?
I don't think you'll see LEC's using this kind of technology - too much intertia to keep them in "traditional" duct installation pratices... Or going straight to direct-burried cable (like FIOS is doing for the drops).
My biggest concern, given how shallow the tubes are trenched, and the less then water-tight appearance of the hand-holes, is getting liquid water into the tube, and it freezing, causing crush-damage. That, and the ease that everyone from landscapers to road workers to other utilities could hit something 6" under the road/sidewalk surface at any point in time...
A neat idea - but don't know if I'd go for it, myself.
As an aside - I worked for a company that had the Canadian rights to a VERY similar product, only for in-building use only - placed the tubes, then blew in the strands as required - it was neat, but way more expensive then traditional cable. The cost killed it, at least for us.
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
·AT&T Southwest
| Yes, Risk with a Capital R
*B-U-T* 
As a "poor" startup -- it kinda made sense, to "risk it all" on the very cheapest installation method possible. You can always "upgrade" if and when the customer base allows it. That logic would make no sense at all to a well capitalized company like AT&T or Verizon.
Given that AT&T has been such a pussy about actual FTTH -- maybe even they would consider a loose partnership with someone brave enough to overlay their UVerse "last-mile" with this stuff?
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boethius
Boo-Yah
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join:2002-01-28
Winters, CA
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| said by ronpin  :Given that AT&T has been such a pussy about actual FTTH -- maybe even they would consider a loose partnership with someone brave enough to overlay their UVerse "last-mile" with this stuff? Partner? I doubt it. Ma Bell is at least 20 years away from FTTH I'd estimate, if it ever fully gets there. FiOS is great but a blip on the map. Street-to-street fiber is a massive, daunting enterprise, as I'm sure you know. Not impossible - just huge. U-verse is a kludgey hedge against FTTH and maintains the copper hegemony.
If you could build a viable business around FTTH I could see Ma Bell buying you out however.
I'd see what Surewest is doing with FTTH. They are perhaps the only significant non-Bell telco source doing anything major with FTTH outside of small municipalities and "elite" cherry-picked subdivisions. If you could bend the ear of one of their field engineers for a day you'd probably find out more about the realities of deploying FTTH - trenching techniques, hardware being utilized, etc. - then you could browsing the web.
That said, Surewest IS a telco (albeit a small one) with more financial resources than the average individual trying guerrilla FTTH and they DID pick up an existing FTTH network for pennies on the dollar. |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
·AT&T Southwest
| said by boethius :... guerrilla FTTH... heh-heh -- yeah that's it! (is that copyrighted?)
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