[160810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Feb 13 20:24:19 2013
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:13:46 +0900."
<511C3A4A.7050401@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:23:54 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <511C3A4A.7050401@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Masataka Ohta writes:
> 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".
And by that argument pots dialup is fiber optic because the packets
went over a fiber optic link to get to the CO.
Mark
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