More than a decade ago, Verizon installed low tier fiber optic Internet to my home. The fiber itself is single mode - the good stuff that can (with repeaters) connect nations across oceans. In theory, they could have provided terabit ethernet from their switch, though the cost of multiple terabit switches between Here and There is vastly more than the fiber connecting them.
Verizon sold their wireline and fiber service to Frontier, a company which sorta kinda sucked. So I switched to Comcast cable, which also sort kinda sucks. "Boil-the- Frog" increasing pricing, and increasing latency. Then Frontier sold to Ziply, which had bad reviews in some places, perhaps not here. When I get a Round Tuit, I will probably change back to optical fiber and Ziply (the fiber still feeds my house). However, my concern is whether the Ziply system is designed to move small low latency packets (like these keystrokes), rather than two hour movies (which can tolerate many seconds of buffering). Anyway, single-mode fiber seems like a much more efficient, spectrum-thrifty, and "ecological" way to move bits, than towers and microwave-mmwave transmitters and the occasional radar-blinded aircraft. Sadly, before that Round Tuit, system and website upgrades, and before that, tax prep. Running as fast as I can to stay in the same place. Sigh. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
