said by elefante72:Listen,
Cable is already fibre to the node. It's only the "last mile" where it gets converted to coax that it is in question.
Comcast by waiting has made a much better decision to go w/ ethernet over fibre versus the PON model which costs way more and is less flexible (FiOS). I said this a few days back.
How is PON less flexible? A properly deployed PON infrastructure will be virtually maintenance free and can have any number of services deployed on top of it. All that has to happen is having another "color" (wavelength) muxed onto the network at whatever aggregation point the operator is using. Verizon and Frontier already run three discrete services over their networks; adding a fourth (what kind of service?) would be easy.
Install is more difficult than plugging into current copper infrastructure but that's because the copper has been in the ground for years. Once a majority of the homes in an area have a fiber drop and installed ONT, ordering new service becomes a matter of plugging in the equipment the service provider ships out, just like coax or copper today.