[119793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Dec 2 09:27:17 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:24:21 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0912021407220.23464@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are
> municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the
> individual house in "suburbia" (you have to trench your own land though,
> 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down the pipe in
> your trench).
Sounds good, though I don't see a majority of US consumers paying for
the trench, nor do I see a lot of home builders paying for it either
(around here they often skimp on putting in a real road, so the city
forces the road to be private which leaves it a wonderful unmaintained
gravel speed bump, much less wiring housing for data).
In addition, I don't see the municipalities paying for plant like they
do roads. Then again, I'm glad the city/county doesn't pay for our
plant. They can barely maintain their roads. Politics, education, and
how money flows in our economy are all probably show stoppers for
widespread success.
Jack
