Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Wed Feb 6 15:54:40 UTC 2013

Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> writes:

> GPON/DOCSIS/RFoG?  That's one people are deploying today.
>
> Over the 50 year proposed lifetime of the plant?  WTF knows.  That's 
> exactly the point.
>
> To paraphrase Tom Peters, you don't look like a trailbreaker by
> *emulating what other trailbreakers have done*.
>
> I'm not *trying* to do the last thing.
>
> I'm trying to do the next thing.  Or maybe the one after that.

The existing copper network was in many cases built like a star with
some very long runs. This worked fine for telephony, but not so well
with ADSL. The result is that providers move their active equipment
closer to the subscriber.

Is there a risk that up-and-coming technologies will depend on shorter
fiber runs? Will the fiber be built in such a way that it joins up in
places where it is possible to later add active equipment if that
becomes desirable?

/Benny