Saturday, November 13, 2004
More on "Verizon's FTTH technology already out of date"
Jeff Hoel writes to point out that Banerjee and Sirbu's excellent paper, Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure puts substance behind the idea that PON is the architecture of centralized control. The paper says
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure puts substance behind the idea that PON is the architecture of centralized control. The paper says
PON supports 'open access' based competition in higher layer services like voice, data and switched digital video, [but] it does not facilitate competition in data-link layer services or in the provision of analog broadcast video services. In complete contrast, the Home Run architecture has the highest initial (fiber related) capital cost, but permits unbundling of both the physical plant and at the logical layer. The Home Run architecture therefore supports a per subscriber choice of data-link layer services (via UNE based competition) as well as competition in higher layer voice, video and data services (via open access).
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