> I'd be interested to see what comments nanogers have on this piece. I'm not > well enough read to critically evaluate the guy's assertions.
I'm not familiar with a GPON system that provides gigabit to every subscriber under 'high congestion'. I do know of FTTN systems that can provide a lot more than 10/50 service to the end user (VDSL2 or ethernet over coax). What I really want to know is why 'Active Ethernet' didn't even make the chart... I got a chuckle out of this: "Provo County’s iProvo was hoping for 10,000 subscribers by July 2006 with the assumption that 75% of those customers would subscribe to lucrative triple play services, but the reality was 10,000 customers in late 2007 with only 17% of those customers subscribing to triple play" A 75% upsell rate to triple play packages seems ludicrous. I can't think of any industry that sees an upsell rate of 75% - can you (hell, I sold running shoes in high school, and the -target- upsell rate on shoestrings/socks/whatever-else was 15%). Nathan
