Dave wrote: > Some areas around Fort Wayne (near where I live) were a test bed for > Verizon to install Fiber optic cables right to the end users house. > They spent a lot of money installing fiber and the people that have the > service called "Fios" have very good > internet speeds. Verizon bundled Internet, phone and TV over the > fiber connections. I am about two miles from the end of the Fios > lines. :-( > If you understand the infrastructure to make FIOS work, it has been clear for years that it would be REALLY hard to make it economically viable. Maybe if a single vendor had phone, internet and TV service, both the network as WELL as the content, it might make sense. I know a bunch of the companies have been salivating over such a setup, but nobody has been able to assemble all the pieces. And, there are really good anti-trust reasons why the shouldn't be allowed to.
It's too bad, as the service could be INSANELY great, 100 Mbit ethernet both directions would be using 1 % of the available bandwidth. What does make sense is probably something like the Uverse system, where fiber terminals are put in every neighborhood, and you get one cabinet that handles basic phone plus a souped-up DSL system. This would not cost ANYWHERE as much as FIOS, and would work in with general infrastructure improvements of the phone company, anyway. I know AT&T is putting in RTs all over the place, and I have to assume that these are eventually going to support some kind of DSL service. The cable TV scheme is also quite workable until everybody wants internet service, then the great bandwidth of the cable plant gets overloaded, and they have to add a lot more branches back to the head end. Still, that isn't such an impossible task. Since I now have 20 mbps down, 1 mbps up cable service, regular DSL no longer looks attractive, even if the cables were fixed up to support it. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
