Verizon is going distinctly chilly on the glorious VDSL2/G.fast future: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/verizon-bypasses-g-fast-to-connect-mdus-focuses-bringing-fiber-to-living-business-units
Interop is horrible and it delivers less than their cableco competitors. On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 17 Aug 2017, at 17:04, James Harrison <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > > Certainly some of us are of that opinion and deploying nothing but FTTP > > en masse in rural areas - we seem to be able to make it make financial > > sense at large scales, at any rate! > > Define large scale? > > > > > There's certainly a place for copper line sweating for now in urban > > areas, and Neil's perfectly correct that in dense areas the cost benefit > > of aggregation is worth the investment in enhancements to technology and > > can provide acceptable performance for now. > > And we predict for some time. > > > > > However, eventually everything will be FTTP if nothing else due to > > copper line degradation over time, and doing it "all at once" rather > > than piecemeal in a geographic area certainly has some substantial > > economies of scale associated with it. > > Eventually is 20 years away and I doubt everyone wants to wait that long. > I agree all at one is the only sensible way to build. > > Regards, > Neil >
