[176460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Phasing out of telco TDM Backbones (was: Phasing out of copper)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Nov 30 00:09:51 2014
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:09:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141129231949.GA32236@besserwisser.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "M=C3=A5ns Nilsson" <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
> Maintaining copper plant is expensive. It will be retired as soon as
> buy-in on FTTH is high enough. Telia Sonera is doing it in Sweden,
> so the trend is global. (OTOH, in Sweden, young people moving out from
> their parents, if they can find somewhere to rent, usually only get a
> fixed connection for Internet access. Telephony is all mobile.)
Absolutely: maintaining analog copper last-mile is expensive.
But let us not conflate being ok with telcos replacing analog copper last-m=
ile
with being ok with telcos replacing PCM with VoIP, especially in trunking
applications, and *especially* using non-dedicated backbones, as these are =
the
directions the RBOCs appear to be going in, and those are much less accepta=
ble
ideas than the former.
Cheers,
-- jra
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