Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Thu Feb 14 01:13:46 UTC 2013


Edward Dore wrote:

> Sadly, despite this being challenged with both the telecoms
> regulator (Ofcom) and advertising watchdog (ASA), for some
> reason both seem pretty happy with the utter farce that is
> advertising BT/OpenReach's VDSL based Fibre To The Cabinet
> and Virgin Media's Hybrid Fibre Coax networks as "fibre
> optic broadband".

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".

> We were supposed to be getting FTTP where I live last March,
> but for some reason BT silently scrapped that plan and now we
> are getting FTTC this March apparently...

Obviously because it makes L1 unbundling difficult.

						Masataka Ohta





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