Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

Fri Feb 1 22:48:42 UTC 2013

IIRC, there is some issue with bleedover of either the forward or return
(optically modulated) RF wavelength with the data wavelength.  Perhaps with
better lasers this could be overcome in the future.

Frank

From: Jason Baugher [mailto:jason at thebaughers.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:38 PM
To: Frank Bulk (iname.com)
Cc: Jay Ashworth; NANOG
Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

Management has asked us why we can't do RF overlay on our AE system. :)
We've had to explain a few times why that would be too expensive even if it
were available because of the high cost of the amps/splitters/combiners to
insert 1550nm onto every AE fiber.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Frank Bulk (iname.com) <frnkblk at iname.com>
wrote:

What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering.  Many
customers like a triple (or quad) play because the price points are
reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than one
provider, and they have just throat to choke and bill to pay.

But few IP TV providers will claim good profitability.  And I don't believe
any vendor has ActiveE and RFoG going down one strand.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra at baylink.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:01 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca>

<snip>

> A good layer 2 deployment can support DHCP or PPPoE and thus be
> compatible with incumbents infrastructure. However, a good layer2
> deployment won't have "RFoG" support and will prefer IPTV over the data
> channel (the australian model supports multicast). So cable companies
> without IPTV services may be at a disadvantage.

I think this depends on what handoffs my TE can provide at the customer
prem.

> In Canada, Rogers (cableco) has announced that they plan to go all
> IPTV instead of conventional TV channels.

Well, the MythTV people will be happy to hear that.

Or they would, if the content people would quit holding a gun to the
heads of the transport people.

Cheers,
-- jra
--
Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink
jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC
2100
Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com         2000 Land Rover
DII
St Petersburg FL USA               #natog                      +1 727 647
1274 <tel:%2B1%20727%20647%201274> 