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ILpt4U
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join:2006-11-12
Saint Louis, MO
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ILpt4U to trparky

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Re: How does AT&T plan to compete with cable speeds?

Kinda agree with trparky here -- a G.fast (or another FTTC[urb]) solution is really only practical in MDUs/Businesses, where fiber can be placed in a Utility room to a DSLAM-like device to feed all the Common phone lines going to each Unit. Power should be able to be fed into that Utility room pretty easily, as well, as many of those phone closets are also the PowerCo meter rooms
DMS1
join:2005-04-06
Plano, TX

DMS1

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said by ILpt4U:

Kinda agree with trparky here -- a G.fast (or another FTTC[urb]) solution is really only practical in MDUs/Businesses, where fiber can be placed in a Utility room to a DSLAM-like device to feed all the Common phone lines going to each Unit. Power should be able to be fed into that Utility room pretty easily, as well, as many of those phone closets are also the PowerCo meter rooms

Which is what I was getting at, but 'tparky' failed to quote the sentence "This would work well for upgrading dense urban developments, such as older apartment buildings." from later in the same paragraph.

If a single twisted pair can be used to serve the last couple of hundred feet then it provides a very good alternative to getting nothing in the cases where fiber installation would be prohibitively expensive. Ideal candidates would be apartment building or high-density townhouse type developments.