Muni Fiber

Sun Mar 25 19:39:46 UTC 2012

Nick Hilliard wrote:

>> wiring center you enable all technologies.  GPON today, direct GigE
>> or 10GE where necessary, and all future technologies.
> 
> yep, agreed - much more sensible, much more resilient to failure and only
> marginally more expensive.

You should suspect cost figures provided by those who want to
keep their monopoly.

At least, if population density is below some threshold, SS is
less expensive than PON, because the expected number of
subscribers to share a fiber with reasonably short drop cables
is small.

> It'll never be done though.  Too much to lose by creating a topology which
> allows you to unbundle the tail.

It is still possible to unbundle PON if regulators want to do so.

See our paper:

	Competition Promoting Unbundling of PON
	http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1914349

						Masataka Ohta