I doubt that you will see a large roll-out of fiber to the home by the telcos. What you will see (and is already budgeted and in progress) is the telcos moving their optical facilities closer to your home, but still using the copper into your home. This will put them on the same footing as the cable co's. Being within 1500 ft of the home you can really pump up the bandwidth. All of the data over copper technologies have the same problem: distances kill them. Take a look at this graph:
ADS2+ really rocks, but only if the telco has their gear close to you. In new neighbourhoods the telcos are already using remotes, putting the active gear within 2000ft of your door. In the older neighbourhoods the telcos have a lot of work in installing remotes closer to you than the central office, but this will allow them to compete directly with the cable plant. You can tell if Bell or Telus has been to your neighbourhood because you'll see Expertech trucks around for a week or so and a new grey cabinet on the street. ----------------------------------------------- Andrew Kooiman P.Eng. Manager, Transport and Infrastructure Engineering Sprint Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416.773.3497 -----Original Message----- From: Henry Coleman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Fwd: Re: [on-asterisk] Cable will win !] That is true Simon, but in the end cable has more bandwidth. The copper pair is "maxed" out with DSL. Bell should start swapping out the copper pair for fiber optics that would enable them to service their customers for the next 50 years or more. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Cable will win ! Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:06:45 -0400 From: Simon P. Ditner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Henry Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't know if it's that clear cut. Bell has DSL infrastructure in place, they can offer more services over that copper pair than I think BT could have in 2000. If they bring VoIP right into the premises, they could do anything the cable companies could do. What I'm curious to know is what VoIP products they're testing in that Quebec trial, and how they're addressing network reliability. On 5/17/05, Henry Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Having had experience in the adoption of VoIP(cable phone service) in the UK. I can say that the scenario that is being played out between Rogers, Bell and CRTC is exactly the same as Shaw Cable, BT and OFTEL in the year 2000. While for the cost of monthly service is more or less the same, the cable companies offer two lines instead of one, free local calls between cable subscribers and a host of other features that BT (British Telecom ) charge extra for. This makes it a "no brainer" for the customer to switch to the local cable company. By the way, cable companies supply analog lines into the home, but they are converted to in the outside cable boxes in the streets. I assume it is VoIP but it may be some other digital method. Henry Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * Simon P. Ditner / ON-Asterisk Mailing List / http://uc.org/asterisk *
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