Re: FiOS's one mistake? - dslreports.com

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ronpin Imagine Reality join:2002-12-06 Nirvana ·AT&T Southwest 1 edit	reply to eXodus Re: FiOS's one mistake? said by eXodus : ...once out of the 1x32 splitters and the FDH, it runs to a "splice box" (i guess you can call it that) that has either 4 or 6 connectors to be run from that box to the ONT. So you dont run an individual strand of fiber from FDH to ONT only from pole to ONT. The longest drop I have heard used was 1000ft. which isin't long at all... 'Same thing as "one strand" (strands do get spliced ) Maybe I should also offer that FiOS's "mistake" is more like a choice between the "lesser of 2 evils" (I suggest they chose the greater evil). FiOS went to great expense to save buying hardware "now". I say save the great expense [of the bloated conduit created in the FiOS architecture] and use that money to buy the hardware you'll ultimately need anyway. That choice enables the use of distributed splitters which in turn enables the use of a tiny cheap sub-surface conduit. So-what if 30% of your OLT ports are never fully loaded with 32 users on each strand? would you prefer to have spent that same money on $10/ft. bloated conduit that could never earn a penny for you? I think the lean-times the early FTTP vendors went thru gave them some "conventional wisdom" (like centralized splitters) that was good advice for the early entrepreneurial FTTH startup's -- but should not have been carried-over into the RBOC world where the huge customer base and corporate capital allows for some economy-of-scale (an entrepreneur would've done his "own" horizontal boring with day-labor for maybe the same cost as the tiny conduit -- thus making centralized splitters pay-off) -- When Clinton lied -- no one died.
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