On 17/08/2017 13:24, Neil J. McRae wrote:
David, Yes backhaul is expensive too, some expect it for nothing! ;)
crazies even sell it for just about nothing!
Oh indeed.
Pulling fibre to one cabinet costs x building to 10 homes costs x
*10.
That doesn't seem right. Surely you pull one large fibre bundle to a
common point which costs y then pull 10 fibres the shorter distances to
the homes which costs z so x < y+z <10x (don't know how GPON affects that)?
Yes there are variances and different situations but it never
costs less to do FTTP over something where there is an opportunity
for aggregation. It might well be that your location there is no
point in aggregating (such as we have done in Cornwall).
I didn't expect FTTP to be cheaper, I was wondering whether it might be
more cost effective sometimes where big improvements are needed
regardless and given the greater future proofing in full fibre. Good to
know there's flexibility to not aggregate where it makes sense.
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David Derrick
Systems & Network Engineer
Entanet International Ltd
0330 100 0330
