On Fri, March 5, 2010 19:36, Mike Lovell wrote: > pulling fiber to each subscriber? isn't that fiber to the home and not > fiber to the node? i'm surprised to hear that comcast is pulling fiber > to the home.
Yes, it is fiber to the box in your front yard. Technically a node. Then it is coax going from the box in your front yard to your house. So, copper for the last 30-50 feet or so. It is apparently possible to support up to 150Mbps using this type of setup. > i guess welcome to capitalism until it drives all other options out of > the market. :( that is probably just my usual skepticism of the big > telcos (yeah, i consider them a telco now) and their usually underhanded > practices. Yet, that is the ONLY option for a corporation. To push as many competitors out of the market as possible while not catching the attention of the DOJ (except for every now and then). It is also expected that a corp will use as many dirty tricks legally allowed as possible. The revenue/profit has to grow each quarter, and as much as possible. When Qwest finally dies, and we are left with Comcast only - how do you regulate them? Does this eventually move us to deregulated telcos? -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
