[116912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Aug 26 15:25:39 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:23:40 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Joel Esler <eslerj@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <314cf0830908261214j9d8552bnc57dbad692750f81@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joel Esler wrote:
>
> I have fiber to the home. I can't imagine going back to "cable
> modems" now. eww..
I couldn't imagine leaving my VDSL2. I've seen broadband sent to the
house via fiber, coax, and copper. I've seen them all done well, and
I've seen them all done poorly. All are capable of hitting >50mb/s.
I personally like copper for the splice and cost on drops as well as
cost of NID/CPE.
Coax has a lot of bandwidth, but requires you to get as close as you
would with copper to do it right and has other issues.
Fiber is the fastest and can run off fewer remote systems, but it has
higher costs and maintenance issues.
I would probably run fiber in a densely populated area. In rural
America, I would stick with copper off 1.5 mile short loop remotes. A
lot depends on what the bandwidth is for. Most of the telco's I work
with rarely have a corporate customer paying for more than 10mb/s.
Jack
