AVonGauss Premium Member join:2007-11-01 Boynton Beach, FL |
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Re: Getting 305/65It's expensive if you try to only do a few, or rush and try to do many at once, but I'd imagine there's a sustainable middle ground. AFAIK, they are not even doing fiber to greenfield construction ares yet. |
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BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT ·Frontier FiberOp.. Asus RT-AC68
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BiggA
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2012-Dec-25 7:54 am
It's a really hard business case to sell when HFC can do so much, and fiber can't do a whole lot more. AT&T, however, has to do fiber, even though they don't, as they don't have any bandwidth left. They have terrible picture quality and half the bandwidth of Comcast, and Comcast isn't close to maxed out, but AT&T is completely maxed out on their copper with U-Verse. |
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rody_44 Premium Member join:2004-02-20 Quakertown, PA 2 edits |
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Greenfield construction in regards to a hfc network is not the same as like the phone companies. Every piece of main line put in the ground for the last twenty years could be turned into a piece of conduit to be used for fiber. » www.cable360.net/technol ··· 4pKys70c The same technology doesnt exist with phone line trunks and i doubt ever will. Just another advantage that coax has. If you view that technology you could also view comcast as well along what could become a all fiber network. I really doubt it tho. Lets be honest tho the future is in wireless anyway. |
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AVonGauss
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2012-Dec-25 11:42 am
Its not as dire with cable operators, but the fact that most in greenfield areas are still not requiring fiber vs coaxial seems to indicate that it won't be coming in the near future.
Unless there is a major breakthrough in wireless, I don't believe wireless will be replacing wired connections any time soon in moderately populated areas. An HFC end branch already represents a "private wireless spectrum" and there are already challenges with managing capacity in that model. |
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BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT ·Frontier FiberOp.. Asus RT-AC68
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They will continue to push fiber farther out, but I don't think it will get to the end user for a long, long, time, as HFC has a lot of capacity, and that last "mile", which in many cases is the last fraction of a mile is by far the most expensive part to replace. Comcast hasn't even done 1GHZ, SDV, or MPEG-4 yet, and any of those technologies would be cheaper than running fiber directly to the house. |
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neufuse join:2006-12-06 James Creek, PA |
I wish we were on 1GHz and MPEG-4 or some variant of the h.264 codec |
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BiggA Premium Member join:2005-11-23 Central CT |
BiggA
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2013-Jan-7 5:08 pm
So true. They could crank the quality up, and still go to 4 channels per carrier with MPEG-4. And the internets up at 1GHZ. They would be amazing! |
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