iotastorm
join:2006-01-24
Florissant, MO
| reply to Techie714
Re: Expected!
Well lets look at this. You have Japan most of whose population is located in dense Urban areas and multi-dwelling buildings. Its really easier to hook these up you put a DSLAM unit in the basement to connect 100's or more people at a time, run an optic link to the local office. Got a building with a lot of people in it? throw a dslam in and run an optic to it. Piece of cake.
We Americans generally like our space. We're spread-out. there are a bit more technical limitations to running things out to each home (except in the denser Urban areas in apartment buildings, we could throw dslams in there) |
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Kompressor
Premium
join:2002-02-12
Huntington Beach, CA | I'm so sick of hearing that argument.
If what you say is true, big citys like New York would be all 100mbps symmetric fiber. |
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cybergrunt1
join:2003-02-14
Culver City, CA
| reply to iotastorm
[sarcasm] That must explain why Verizon only offers FIOS to suburban houses, not to dense Urban areas and multi-dwelling buildings. [/sarcasm] The fiber itself is cheap and town-to-town fiber is easy. Installing in dense urban areas is costly and hard. Japan is way, way ahead of the U.S. |
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iotastorm
join:2006-01-24
Florissant, MO | As I understand it, that is what Japan and other Far Eastern areas ARE doing, I didn't say WE were doing it. It might make sense to do it that way. |
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