wifi4milez
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| What defines a "cluster"?
I think depending on what the define as a cluster will determine how much this will cost. A cluster here in NYC is buildings right on top of one another. A cluster in a more spread out area (even a city like LA) could easily cover a few square miles. This seems a bit problematic to me. |
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digitalfreak
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49533 | As opposed to just giving it to your incumbent telco / cable buddies to add to their coffers? |
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said by wifi4milez  :I think depending on what the define as a cluster will determine how much this will cost. This cluster plan sounds very much like AT&T's U-Verse system. Or in other words, fiber to the node(FTTN). Run fiber to a neighborhood and then use existing copper to all the individual residences.
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wifi4milez
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said by digitalfreak :As opposed to just giving it to your incumbent telco / cable buddies to add to their coffers? HUH? What does that even mean, and how was it a response to my post? 
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me1212
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Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to wifi4milez
Whatever defines it, there are about 50 houses near me in a 4 or 5 mi area, so I hope it is about 4 or 5mi. |
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rradina
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Chesterfield, MO
| Hmmm. That might stretch the definition of a cluster. Even if that was an acceptable cluster, where does the fiber terminate? The geographic center of the 4-5 mile area? What good does that do those dwellings without additional investment in last-mile infrastructure? Even if they terminated the fiber near some sort of POTS line interconnect, there still needs to be additional hardware to traverse the remaining 10,000 feet and bring some kind of connection to the dwellings.
This smells like a way to prompt AT&T to do what it should have had done by now -- run more fiber out from the CO to eliminate the distance limitations of their copper plant. |
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