On 07/09/04 23:54 -0600, Adil Kodian wrote:
Unhappily, its actually cheaper to roll out fibre and recover your costs over a slightly longer period of time. Plus, what happens to different protocols like the peer to peer applications?
Dyu have any statistics to backup your statement ? I would be really interested in knowing how fibre to the home is actually cheaper than copper in reasonable recovery times.
Fibre scales a lot better than Copper. Media costs are not much different in fibre and copper, termination costs are. With different frequencies in the same media, fibre has a lot more carrying capacity.
With copper, your limitation is 100 m of FE. Fibre is a few km. The trick is to combine both media, with copper at the edge connecting to a fibre network.
User -- Copper --- Fibre===========
Of course, the initial costs of both fibre and copper laid out correctly are high, but once you have the network installed and your cost recovered, the rest of the time you are making pure profits (your running costs is extremely low, as compared to other media).
Devdas Bhagat