quetwo
That VoIP Guy
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join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI
| reply to Biskit
Re: Great Synch Though
Verizon was not the first to deploy FTTH. Many smaller, independent telephone companies (Vernon Telephone comes to mind first) have been deploying this technology for years. Verizon is just one of the first "Big-Boys" do deploy "Fiber to the customer". |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to bogey780
said by bogey780  :FTTx? Don't you mean FTTP? This isn't a bandwidth problem so why are you ranting about it? yet |
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techjoe
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join:2004-02-20
Schererville, IN
| reply to N3OGH
Exactly. FTTx (heh) has been in use for years in various environments. My company has miles upon miles of fiber running to IDF's and such (FTTI??  ). Same theory, in basic principle. The govt has been using fiber for secure high-speed communications for longer, PTP mostly but still. In FTTN it's pretty much PTP and routed over copper or whatever is locally feasable to the final destination...
How much of the innaweb's larger tubes are made of copper these days anyway?
etc etc etc
Fiber has been run through its paces and is a proven technology, no doubt about it.
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
 ·Verizon FIOS
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| reply to Biskit
Well, fiber optics has been used for years around the globe under ground, under the sea, across continents, and strung on poles.
The technology itself is proven reliable. The fact that it's being strung into a house or a business doesn't change that.
It doesn't matter if Verizon decides to push voice, data, or 1000 channels of prOn over it, fiber has been proven to be the most trouble free and cost effective way to move large amounts of data.
Or, did I miss the latest massive deployment of copper trans oceanic and trans continental lines???
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | reply to N3OGH
Well there's FTTN and FTTC also. AT&T is using FTTN |
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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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said by bogey780 :FTTx? Don't you mean FTTP? This isn't a bandwidth problem so why are you ranting about it? I'm using it because an earlier poster used it.
The "lowercase" x indicates the initial in the acronym is interchangeable with another letter.
Like FTTH is Fiber To The Home, and FTTP Fiber To The Premises. Some people use either term or the other. The earlier poster in this case, instead of choosing one or the other, substituted the lowercase x wherever the P or H would've been....
Some other examples are using the term Tx instead of the entire word "treatment".
I don't think it really applies to the prescription symbol "Rx" (where the x crosses the leg of the R) as I believe that's an abbreviation for the Latin word recipe / take.
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Biskit
join:2003-02-07
Fenton, MO | reply to N3OGH
FTTx is a time tested proven technology.
Really? Since verizon is the first one to roll this out and recently I might add, how much time are we talking? |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | reply to N3OGH
FTTx? Don't you mean FTTP?
This isn't a bandwidth problem so why are you ranting about it? |
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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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| reply to jtel
AT&T is wasting so much money on this all ready obsolete technology.
Sure, FTTx is more expensive up front, but it's cheaper to maintain in the long run.
FTTx is also, in the long run less of a risk. FTTx WORKS. It's time tested proven technology, and the best, fastest way to move voice, video, and data.
Instead, AT&T tries to revive the lost art of alchemy. Trying to turn copper into gold.
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