Last Mile Design

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Sat Feb 9 20:26:13 UTC 2019


I expect things are going to change as IoT takes off - security cameras, 
baby monitors, start to push video upstream - that makes a difference.


And then there are the efforts of cell carriers to push traffic onto 
home wifi - more and more facetime video will also add load.


Miles


On 2/9/19 3:14 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Electrical consumption of the equipment is different and then the 
> environmental conditioning that larger electronic load.
>
> Let's not forget that actual consumer bit consumption changes very 
> little whether they have 20 megs or 2 gigs provisioned and available.
>
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> *From: *"Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
> *To: *nanog at nanog.org
> *Sent: *Saturday, February 9, 2019 12:20:36 PM
> *Subject: *Re: Last Mile Design
>
> Speaking of which, the Grant County Public Utility District (Washington
> State), has wired active ethernet all over their rural county.
>
> Seems to me that the cost difference between splitters & switches is a
> pretty minor component of deploying FTTH - the costs are in the
> trenching, and the fiber.  What you put on the poles, or in the lawn
> furniture, is a pretty minor cost component. Though... getting power to
> the switches might be an issue, less so if you're deploying on power 
> poles.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> On 2/9/19 12:59 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >
> >> If I had to build a consumer broadband network and had the budget
> >> (and owned the fibre) to do so, I'd definitely always choose Active-E:
> >
> > For anyone saying it's "impossible" to do AE they're welcome here to
> > the nordic region and especially Sweden where PON is basically unheard
> > of. We have millions of AE connected households. I live in one of them.
> >
> -- 
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra
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