[160622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sat Feb 9 19:23:44 2013
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:22:31 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Jay Ashworth wrote:
> So, over three times as much fiber if you're not putting the splitter
> in the field, which is... the opposite of what you assert?
That is a very minor material cost.
What matters is labor, which is mostly proportional to not total
length of fiber but total length of cable (including both trunk
and drop).
Note also that sharing a drop cable between multiple subscribers
is virtually impossible.
> Or am I dense?
Feel free to call yourself so.
Masataka Ohta
