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Re: At&t vdsl I never said it'd be "Verizon FIOS like". That is not the way AT&T is going. They prefer active/managed over passive hubs, active IP networks over passive RF signals like Cable, and incremental network upgrades over rip and replace. Are you trying to argue they're doing the wrong thing with this strategy? Yes, getting to the end goal will eventually cause more capital expense than what Verizon did, but the investment is spread out over time, they can choose where to make the investment for business reasons rather than being forced to invest in FTTP just to get subs, and they can get started quicker and cheaper than Verizon did and be resident on customer sites.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but I'll comment on a couple of your statements.
"Stuck with an IPTV system forever?" You say that like it's a bad thing. There are huge advantages long-term to moving to IP, like being able to leverage a single managed backbone IP network. This is where they have the lead on Verizon.
"Internet traffic deprioritized in favor of IPTV" ?? I think the point you're missing is that the IPTV stream is a single stream to the node, not one video stream per user like the Internet-streaming-video model. Therefore there's plenty of room to carry the IPTV streams on the backbone, they will not be bumping up against the Internet packets. |
