booj
join:2011-02-07
Richmond, ON | Fiber to the home Could someone educate me on what this term means?
My buddy just purchased a new town home in west Ottawa and over the weekend and I helped him move in. In his basement is a massive cabinet that wires the entire house with 32 ethernet ports. Pretty sweet standard setup for these new homes.
What I couldn't believe though was the fiber line. Fiber comes right into his house, which one would think implies a great broadband connection. But no, instead it is spliced into coax, leading to a CABLE MODEM and he has regular rogers cable internet from there to the rest of his fancy house wiring.
He told me the only other option was Bell dsl from the fiber optic split.
I can't believe that there are no options available to him to actually use the amazingly fat pipe that is sitting in his basement, without resorting to the standard packages that we all suffer from. Does he have any better options? |
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
kudos:1 | All depends on where the fiber runs to and who owns it. |
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 mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | reply to booj
That is fibre technically, just that for these Rogers deployments, the DOCSIS signal is injected into the fibre instead of coax all the way from the cable plant to the neighbourhood. Near the house there is a transceiver that gets fed fibre from the cable plant directly and then terminated into coax at the customers house. This is known as RFoC.
They do this so they don't need all of the added equipment at the cable plant and neighbourhood to do straight fibre.
Basically it is better for capacity but Rogers does not want to give better packages, at least not in the trial stage. |
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | reply to booj
Basically it's the equivalent of Fibe in MDUs; FTTP. Fibre is used to get to the building, and the distribution inside the building is handled with something traditional like ethernet, coax, telephone lines, etc. In this case, it's a bit abstracted from that since they're using ethernet to distribute, but put a cable modem between the fibre and ethernet, but since they basically just put a cable node in his basement, that's the way they'd have to do it.
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 JCohenPremium
join:2010-10-19
Nepean, ON
kudos:2 | reply to booj
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Freq···er_Glass |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
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Interesting that Rogers would be going fibre for last mile instead of coax. Perhaps they figure they might as well start now even though coax still has plenty of years ahead where it will beat the pants off DSL.
On potential huge advantage is *IF* the last mile fibre has full bidirectionality. Coax may have 850mhz or more that is sent to the home, but only handles 46mhz (or is it 42?) on the upstream, really limiting upstream capacity.
a GPON system , even if it is RFoG, might allow huge upstream capacity compared to the coax which has the 46mhz limit in telephone pole hardware. |
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mlernerPremium
join:2000-11-25
Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | Rogers and other cable co's are moving to RFoG. Basically one more step to moving the last mile closer to homes just like Bell is doing. Since it is pretty much straight fibre, it also makes way for GPON in the future.
The Ottawa deployment is basically serving as a test run before they start rolling out to other areas. |
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