[116911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Esler)
Wed Aug 26 15:15:14 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A9587B0.4080306@brightok.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:14:03 -0400
From: Joel Esler <eslerj@gmail.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Bates<jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> jim deleskie wrote:
>>
>> I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to
>> the home. =A0If 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 homes, it's outdated before we even finish.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.
I have fiber to the home. I can't imagine going back to "cable
modems" now. eww..
