If you can use the wiring that's already there then you save a bundle. Eventually, V-Rads will shrink in size small enough to be located on neighborhood utility poles and 100/5 will become the standard V-Rad speeds. I wouldn't be surprised is Verizon is looking at an on pole V-Rad solution as well-which is why they aren't expanding, even into areas where they already have fiber strung on the poles.
What's your time frame for this? Something that fits inside of a cabinet is not going to shrink to the size small enough to hang on a pole in the next few years
Actually it can, because the pole mounted ones would only support perhaps 30 houses, while the big V-Rads support about 10 times that amount. In front of my house I have a pole mounted cell site for MetroPCS. Fed by fiber, it's about one foot square and six feet long-and hangs right on the pole, complete with an electric meter. A few years ago, this site would have required its own building.
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