Muni Fiber and Politics

Sat Aug 2 17:29:41 UTC 2014

I thought JRA was asking about the upstream cost. 

Owen

> On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:17:24 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: 
>> 
>> So we'll assume we could get 4 for 22k to make the
>> arithmetic easy, and that means if we can put 44 people
>> on that, that the MRC cost is 500 dollars a month for a
>> gigabit. That is clearly not consumer pricing. Was
>> consumer pricing the assertion?
> 
> I think Owen's pricing is based on 10Gbps router ports 
> (Owen, correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
> This is not the only way to sell 10Gbps services.
> 
> Having said that, in context of home broadband, I was 
> referring to AN's (Access Nodes), particularly based on 
> Active-E (you don't generally place consumer customers 
> directly on to 10Gbps router ports).
> 
> The 10Gbps ports on an Active-E AN are in the same 1U 
> chassis as the 44x Gig-E ports. And depending on how many 
> you buy from vendors for your Access network, you can get 
> pretty decent deals with good return if you get great uptake 
> and have a sweet price point.
> 
> Mark.