[160809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Feb 13 20:14:36 2013
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:13:46 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <2BD016DC-3F62-4B31-AAE3-F7B031DFA714@freethought-internet.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Edward Dore wrote:
> Sadly, despite this being challenged with both the telecoms
> regulator (Ofcom) and advertising watchdog (ASA), for some
> reason both seem pretty happy with the utter farce that is
> advertising BT/OpenReach's VDSL based Fibre To The Cabinet
> and Virgin Media's Hybrid Fibre Coax networks as "fibre
> optic broadband".
Sadly, it is impossible to say FTTC not "fiber optic broadband",
because it is "broadband" (at least with today's access speed)
with "fiber optic".
> We were supposed to be getting FTTP where I live last March,
> but for some reason BT silently scrapped that plan and now we
> are getting FTTC this March apparently...
Obviously because it makes L1 unbundling difficult.
Masataka Ohta
