[116925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Enger - NANOG)
Wed Aug 26 18:29:56 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:29:10 -0700
From: Robert Enger - NANOG <nanog@enger.us>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A9587B0.4080306@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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CON: active devices in the OSP.
On 8/26/2009 12:06 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> 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 homes, it's outdated before we even finish.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
>
