sweintz
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join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
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Re: awesome
said by bbskeptic  :Imagine 50,000 strands of fiber running into a central office. That's what they do with copper now already.... I understand it's expensive to redo the xact same with fiber, but...
as far as WD multiplexing goes, assuming 32 channels, that's still only 32 cusomers on a fiber before someone has to share bandwidth. I was under the impression it was way more than 32 cusomers to a fiber... |
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bbskeptic
join:2005-09-12
Burlington, VT
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Imagine 50,000 strands of fiber running into a central office. Imagine that fiber bank gets cut during a street project.... even with mass fusion splicers, you may see your service again in about a month if you are lucky.... my point is that it is not practical for everyone to get a strand of fiber all the way back to the equipment. GPON can give a shared 2.4 Gbps down and 1.2 Gbps up per 32 customers. That is a GUARANTEED 75mb per customer.... GPON ain't so bad... However, Verizon's BPON at 622Mb down, 155 Mb up only guarantees 19Mbps... quite sad seeing ADSL2+ is more than double that... |
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