[160839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Feb 14 19:14:41 2013
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:13:37 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130214012354.C51042F91778@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mark Andrews wrote:
>> 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.
Well, not pots, but, NTT was, against ADSL, advertising their
128Kbps ISDN dial up as "high speed Internet".
So, 128Kbps dial up might have been "broadband" at that time
at least for NTT, until, in late 2001, Japanese government
defined "high speed Internet access network" access network to
be able to smoothly download music data etc. with examples of
xDSL, CATV and Wifi.
Masataka Ohta
