[116909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Aug 26 15:08:21 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:06:24 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ffcec29f0908261057x1896572qed8d68793c798c27@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
jim deleskie wrote:
> I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to
> the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to
> homes, it's outdated before we even finish.
I disagree. I much prefer fiber to the curb with copper to the home. Of
course, I haven't had a need for 100mb/s to the house which I can do on
copper, much less need for gigabit.
Pro's for copper from curb:
1) power over copper for POTS
2) Majority of cuts occur on customer drops and copper is more resilient
to splicing by any monkey.
Jack
