 jsz0Premium
join:2008-01-23
Jewett City, CT | reply to MyDogHsFleas
Re: So, does this actually do anything for the consumer? Yes and no. As you mentioned the big benefit is having a medium to every home that is almost unlimited in terms of future bandwidth demands. Reliability comes in the form of fiber, less "moving parts" between the customer and the source, and also battery backups at each home.
In the short term it matches the same amount of bandwidth most PON systems like FIOS use for video service (860Mhz) and still has capacity left over for ~24 bonding channels for DOCSIS 3 which equates to ~1Gbit/sec of bandwidth. To put that into perspective most of the DOCSIS 3 deployments today that are competing with GPON/FIOS are only 4 or 8 channels. So it addresses both short and long term bandwidth demands. I'm guessing in most cases the long term upgrade path will be 10G-EPON instead of GPON. |
