[100468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Wed Oct 24 06:46:07 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:36:13 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071023132049.GB84796@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from Leo Bicknell on Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:20:49AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Why are no major us builders installing FTTH today? Greenfield should
> be the easiest, and major builders like Pulte, Centex and the like
> should be eager to offer it; but don't.
Well, Verizon seems to be making heavy bets on replacing significant
chunks of old copper plant with FTTH. Here's a recent FiOS announcement:
Linkname: Verizon discovers symmetry, offers 20/20 symmetrical FiOS service
URL: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071023-verizon-discovers-symmetry-offers-2020-symmetrical-fios-service.html
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
