Request for comments

Tue Mar 7 13:06:06 UTC 2023

The picture changes significantly when an operator's choice is weighted by
his current subscriber base.
Evidently, incumbents have lots of copper media, while smaller operators
(more agile?) are laying fibre and mostly growing GPON on it.

Rebuttals are welcome !

Unweighted data
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eZZeqbDaTj6nSJJDdK0iu5Xm9Z_691rR&authuser=etienne.depasquale%40um.edu.mt&usp=drive_fs>

Weighted data
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fMLiEGbvaD4pqCmQM75HWYoR37XaiHFQ/view?usp=sharing>
(weighted by number of subscribers)

Cheers,

Etienne

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 5:32 PM Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa at ieee.org>
wrote:

> I've updated the graphic
> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eZZeqbDaTj6nSJJDdK0iu5Xm9Z_691rR&authuser=etienne.depasquale%40um.edu.mt&usp=drive_fs>
> with one other data point and increased the graphic's size (following
> feedback).
>
> In particular, I'd like to understand why there are so many operators who
> consider Active Ethernet (p2p)
> to be their largest and/or fastest growing access technology.
>
> Would anyone care to give an opinion / interpretation / perspective /
> other ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Etienne
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 9:24 AM Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa at ieee.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Good people of NANOG,
>>
>> Please find here
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eZZeqbDaTj6nSJJDdK0iu5Xm9Z_691rR/view?usp=sharing>
>> a snapshot of two datasets concerning access technologies in the metro area.
>>
>> The bar chart on the right summarizes data I collected last year from
>> *NOGs;
>> the bar chart on the left summarizes data received last year from Tier 1
>> and/or regional operators (incumbents).
>> The y-axis shows cumulative responses for an option; the x-axis shows
>> (hopefully unambiguous) monikers for the access technologies.
>>
>> Would anyone care to comment on how well this matches his/her perception
>> of the current state of deployments?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
>> Assistant Lecturer
>> Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
>> Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
>> University of Malta
>> Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale
>>
>
>
> --
> Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
> Assistant Lecturer
> Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
> Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
> University of Malta
> Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale
>

-- 
Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Malta
Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale
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