Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Sat Feb 2 19:42:48 UTC 2013

Because telcos specifically want to /discourage/ competition.

You're perilously close to trolling, here, sir...
-jra

Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> wrote:

>On 13-02-02 10:36, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
>> Yes, but everyone on a splitter must be backhauled to the same L1
>provider,
>> and putting splitters *in the outside plant* precludes any other type
>> of L1 service, *ever*.  So that's a non-starter.
>
>
>If you have 4 ISPs, why not put 4 splitters in the neighbourhood ?
>Individual homes can be hooked to any one of the 4 splitters, and you
>then only need 4 strands between splitter and CO.
>
>I understand that having strands from CO to Homes is superior at the
>technical point of veiw and gives you more flexibility for different
>services (including commercial services to a home while the neighbour
>gets residential services).
>
>But if strands from CO to homes is so superior, how come telcos aren't
>doing it and are using GPON instead ?

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