[1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed Jan 14 07:18:54 PST 2009

We've been following Puerto Rico -- thanks to PacketFront -- 
and will want to do a story on it soon. I spend a lot of 
time in Jamaica and tell them to do the same thing. Makes 
sense even at their household income.

The ability of P2P to do open access easier than with GPON 
(it is easier for ISPs to co-locate in a P2P CO, for one 
thing) is beginning to erode. But P2P is amazingly flexible 
in other ways -- easier VPNs, for instance, and more 
symmetrical bandwidth.

BTW, in many US cities, the COs are space-constrained and 
power-constrained, and GPON can offer a real advantage there.

Steven S. Ross
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Broadband Properties
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William Zayas wrote:
> Steve,
> Down here in Puerto Rico we are currently building a FTTP network based on Active Ethernet gear from Packetfront .
> We decide to go with AE topology for several reason but the most important in the cost.
> Because we are a small island but with a high density population area is more cost effective the Active Ethernet topology.
> Other important thing is the operational model is based on Open Access. Basically we are building a fourth utility system for the people of Puerto Rico.
> Just imagine a dedicated Optical Ethernet port of 100Mbps symmetrical stream with the freedom of choice to select the best cost effective Service Provider.
> 
> 
> regards
> 
> William Zayas
> Chief Technology Officer
> Fibercrossing Corp.
> City View Plaza Suite 107
> Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968
> Office:(787)620-0046
> Mobile:(787)530-9191
> www.fibercrossing.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "John Brown" <john at citylinkfiber.com>
> To: editorsteve at gmail.com; "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com>; "1st-Mile-NM" <1st-mile-nm at crank.dcn.davis.ca.us>
> Sent: 1/14/09 10:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd:  Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia,	the free encyclopedia
> 
> 
> 
> CityLink offers Fiber to the Home in Albuquerque.   
> 
> Our Service isn't FiOS, its BETTER, 100Mb/s up and down.
> 
> We've attempted to do this in Santa Fe, but the City seems VERY VERY
> slow in getting the approval process moving forward.  We've spent a year
> and no one in the Santa Fe City has been able to even provide the
> details on starting the Franchise process.  Santa Fe is only behind the
> times because its leadership doesn't keep up or is to tied down with
> local politics.  Its sort of funny.  You have a private sector company
> that wants to spend its money and deploy fiber.  All it needs is
> permission to use the Rights of Way.  Its willing to hook schools,
> community centers, libraries and City buildings up at no cost.  Yet the
> City can't seem to sort out how to let this happen.
> 
> We are the only GREEN builder of Fiber networks in the state. We use
> robots to deeply fiber via the existing storm and sewer systems, we use
> specialized micro-trenching which only requires 5/8" by 8" trench to
> place 288 strands of fiber.  That's 288 homes.  Our methods use between
> 70 and 90 percent less oil based products, fuels and materials than
> traditional methods.
> 
> 
> John Brown
> CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc.
> New Mexico's only Certified FTTH Provider
> Certification by the National Fiber-to-the-Home Council
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ross
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:20 AM
> To: Tom Johnson; 1st-Mile-NM
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia,the free
> encyclopedia
> 
> Yup on FiOS.
> 
> Look, I edit a magazine that LOVES fiber to the home. So I have a bias.
> But the word from Consumer's Union on FiOS specifically is "get it if
> you can... it is amazing."
> 
> Customers seem to like it... a lot. The churn is 1.5% a month --
> basically, the rate at which people change addresses. Otherwise, they
> can't pry FiOS out of customers' 
> hands.
> 
> This is the way it is for FTTH. More than 450 mainly rural providers
> (for the most part, small "tier 3 Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers" --
> the phone companies) also offer FTTH, and their churn rate is lower in
> the aggregate than Verizon's -- apparently  because folks who live in
> rural areas don't move as often as the national average.
> 
> About 15 million homes can now get FTTH in the US, and more than 70% are
> served by Verizon. Verizon will have half its 35-million-home footprint
> served by FiOS in another 18 months.
> 
> Verizon itself is so comfortable with the technology that it is quietly
> overbuilding AT&T U-Verse in Texas and Maryland. 
> U-Verse is fiber to the node, which means the fiber ends on average 2500
> feet from the subscriber and old copper takes over from there, using a
> souped-up variant of DSL called ADSL2+.
> 
> It may be the only reason to move to Plano, Texas. Imagine. 
> AT&T, with a damn good service offering up to 10 Mbps, is in competition
> with a better service offering 50 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up.... while most
> of New Mexico is "served" (in the sense a bull serves a cow down at the
> ranch) by Qwest.
> 
> To be fair, Verizon spends about $5 billion a year on FiOS expansion
> alone, and Qwest's entire market value is less than that.
> 
> The new fiber technologies, especially GPON and EPON for FTTH, are
> amazingly reliable, because the fiber is immune to lightning and
> electrical interference. In fact, the distribution hubs are for the most
> part entirely optical. 
> There's no electricity at all in the distribution system -- just at the
> customer end and in the central office. The routers and switches are all
> pretty "smart," so they monitor themselves; quality of service is thus
> excellent.
> 
> All broadband network builders use "oversubscription." That is, the
> total backhaul bandwidth does not come close to the total bandwidth
> promised individual subscribers. But Verizon is evidently very
> conservative. If you signed up for 50 Mbps, and you need it, it's there
> when you press your pedal to the metal.
> 
> This all contributes to low latency -- especially neat for gamers. so
> Verizon (it's evidently not your father's phone
> company) funds the "world championships" for gamers -- in Korea, where
> it has no customers -- to stimulate demand, because only FTTH can
> deliver the performance gamers need. 
> So... you need a phone... with a dial... we have that in... 
> black...
> 
> Large housing complexes -- MDUs -- can get FiOS through its "Verizon
> Enhanced Communities" program. Verizon basically invades a lackluster
> competitor's territory as a CLEC -- competitive local exchange carrier.
> It works when Verizon can latch on to a fiber interstate trunk nearby.
> This is a twist on an old business, that of the "private cable
> operator." So many large property owners are happy to play ball.
> 
> Some cities do it themselves, too. But cash flow has to be carefully
> planned or you end up like a carrier in Albuquerque did.
> 
> Otherwise, you need a forward-looking state that really cares about
> economic development (or a President with a national broadband plan...
> and it may happen... I'm up to my armpits in transition plans). Our
> latest studies on that are at www.bbpmag.com. There's also a 32-page
> "primer" there that explains this stuff in reasonably plain English. Or
> Spanish (we did it for South American telcos).
> 
> Once the fiber is laid, it is pretty much future proof. 
> Instead of carrying one wavelength of light, off-the-shelf equipment now
> allows multiples, and the standard calls for 1024. The new "10Gig"
> lasers up the throughput by 4 times more per wavelength by pulsing
> faster. Acoustically-linked optical circular polarization (already used
> in some equipment, but not for communications) gives each wavelength a
> thousand-fold increase.
> 
> So swap out some electronics at the central office and each single plain
> fiber laid today will be able to carry 4 million fibers' worth of
> traffic down the road. That's about 500 exabytes per second ON A SINGLE
> FIBER. Total world traffic today is about 500 exabytes a YEAR.
> 
> Copper... is so... last-century.
> 
> 
> 
> Steven S. Ross
> Editor-in-Chief
> Broadband Properties
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> www.bbpmag.com
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> 
> Tom Johnson wrote:
>> Steve:
>> You have experience with FiOS, don't you? 
>>
>> -tom
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Owen Densmore* <owen at backspaces.net 
>> <mailto:owen at backspaces.net>>
>> Date: Jan 13, 2009 4:18 PM
>> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon FiOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>> To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org 
>> <mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>, The Friday Morning Applied 
>> Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at redfish.com>>
>>
>> I was probing around for internet tv services (I'm considering 
>> dropping cable/sat/.. and moving to AppleTV + "home theater" or 
>> similar .. i.e. "internet tv") and happened across a NFL football site
> 
>> that offers HD service through something called FiOS .. which I hadn't
> 
>> seen before.
>>
>> Apparently there's a very nifty broadband service evolving:
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fios
>> Here's an older survey on it:
>>    http://tinyurl.com/8m4mgx
>> One interesting statement they make is: The results are clear. If 
>> speed is what you're after, go with FiOS first, cable second and DSL 
>> last.  (I'd be suspicious of the DSL/Cable difference, given the 
>> shared nature of cable.)
>>
>> Has anyone tried FiOS?  Unfortunately it is not available in Santa Fe 
>> .. we're a bit third world, alas.  But maybe it'll get here some time 
>> and I'd like to know if your experiences are good.
>>
>>      -- Owen
>>
>>
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