[119794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Wed Dec 2 10:25:03 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:27:32 -0500
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
In-Reply-To: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB039576AF@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>
> 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).
>
> Common cost for the house owner to get this done is in the 2-4kUSD range
> per house, then you can choose between multiple ISPs to purchase your bw
> from. 100/100 (symmetric speed) seems to cost 40 USD per month, 10/10 is
> 5-10 USD/month cheaper.
>
> I've been trying to run the text thru google translate, but the web magic
> seems to prohibit this from working.
>
> If someone can figure it out better than me, the URL is here (in swedish):
>
> <http://www.sollentunaenergi.se/bredband/ansl_villor.asp>
>
>
I'd look more to what they're doing in Rochester, NY:
http://rocwiki.org/Sewer_Fiber_Optic_Network
Run it in the sewers. The sewer system runs to every building and
household in the municipality. No need to re-trench anything.
--Curtis
