 DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
kudos:1 | reply to lakerfan82
Re: Backhaul? I think that why its going to take 4-5 years, 100 million pops need to be upgraded to Fiber. There is no way they can do it fast. |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| said by DaveDude:I think that why its going to take 4-5 years, 100 million pops need to be upgraded to Fiber. There is no way they can do it fast. Maybe Verizon's FIOS strategy was more than just for residential internet.
If Verizon taps into their FIOS backbone in urban areas, this could be a relatively inexpensive upgrade for them.
And go figure, Verizon has FIOS rollouts in both markets.
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| There is no need to tap into FIOS anything. Verizon owns much of the US backbone in the first place, that being the merger/purchase of MCI, which used to be MCI Worldcom which was UUNET before that. Verizon currently operates the largest backbone in the US, so there is no real limitation for them. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Backbone has nothing to do with last mile fiber.
You can't cut/tap backbone to feed to a tower. Plus most of the intercity fiber is perma-leased by VZB. |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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·T-Mobile US
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said by jvanbrecht:There is no need to tap into FIOS anything. Verizon owns much of the US backbone in the first place, that being the merger/purchase of MCI, which used to be MCI Worldcom which was UUNET before that. Verizon currently operates the largest backbone in the US, so there is no real limitation for them. True, but a backbone doesn't really line up well with cellular cells. You need a network which branches out to get to the cell sites. That's the hard part. I doubt anyone believes that ATT has a shortage of backbone bandwidth. The problem has always been the last mile(s) to the cell site.
Traditionally, they'd run T-1's from their network backbone waaayyy out to the cell site (or use microwaves). FIOS gives VZ the ability to very cheaply speed up their cell sites in metro areas on that last mile.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
-United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara |
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 elbm
join:2000-08-03
Reisterstown, MD
2 edits | We (VZ core) have been doing a ton off work for VZW in Maryland bringing fiber to every tower, equipping each site with Fuji FW 4100's sonet muxes and setting them up for GigE over fiber back-haul. The push is to have most done and up by the end of the year. We also have a big project coming up to do some thing similar for ATT, non-sonet, in the near future but in this area VZW is way ahead.
Fios does not have the redundancy and rubustness for carrier grade transport. |
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