said by mrkevin:Oh...side note.
This isn't a Verizon CO. we are an independent.
I'm sure they are using some of the same equipment.
I take it Verizon is finally upgrading their back end to fiber instead of copper to fully supplement fiber all the way to the home?
We are, I'm not sure about Verizon.
Ah thanks for clearing that up. Last time I was over doing some work at their facility (about 6 months ago), it was still a copper setup (this was a cost saving measure). Nothing wrong with it, actually slightly lower latency anyways compared to fiber, just as much throughput especially with the short lengths.
said by cdru:said by WantingFIOS :
Ah neat, I take it Verizon is finally upgrading their back end to fiber instead of copper to fully supplement fiber all the way to the home? Last time I was at a verizon plant, their bankend was still all copper for FIOS.
Who cares what the back end is. If it supplies adequit bandwidth, what does it matter if it's copper, fiber, microwave, or tin cups with strings.
Wow, sounds like I pushed a button, I never said it was a huge deal, just asking if an upgrade was taking place, since neither I nor my department has heard about it yet. Besides, not much would be gained as of yet with using all fiber as a backed to the network (as of yet).