Comments on: Europe pressed to push fibre closer to the consumer http://www.buddeblog.com.au/europe-pressed-to-push-fibre-closer-to-the-consumer/ From Paul's Desk Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Paul Budde http://www.buddeblog.com.au/europe-pressed-to-push-fibre-closer-to-the-consumer/#comment-89163 Paul Budde Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:39:53 +0000 http://www.buddeblog.com.au/?p=222#comment-89163 Hi John, To some extent it will be an evolution, in other words things are not happening overnight. However, driven by competition 1Gb/s services for the residential market will be commercial available in Europe by 2010. Bring in competition and we will see if it makes economic sense, if it does it will move faster, otherwise the process might take 10 - 15 years. Paul Hi John,

To some extent it will be an evolution, in other words things are not happening overnight. However, driven by competition 1Gb/s services for the residential market will be commercial available in Europe by 2010. Bring in competition and we will see if it makes economic sense, if it does it will move faster, otherwise the process might take 10 - 15 years.

Paul

]]> By: John Colwell http://www.buddeblog.com.au/europe-pressed-to-push-fibre-closer-to-the-consumer/#comment-86804 John Colwell Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:18:20 +0000 http://www.buddeblog.com.au/?p=222#comment-86804 Hi Paul, I hope Sol T reads your blog. I wouldn't hold my breath though despite the departure of Amigo 2. A technical question arises with a pure fibre network in Australia. There are millions of POTS out there which rely on copper for power. It is not therefore practical to just rip out the copper and replace it with fibre in the same ducts. FttN makes sense for any incumbent telco with old cabling. FttH is fine for greenfields but we will have to do something pretty drastic to get FttH in established areas. What are your thoughts as to how this could be done without the huge cost of replacing all the connected telco powered handsets in the country. Regards John Hi Paul,

I hope Sol T reads your blog. I wouldn’t hold my breath though despite the departure of Amigo 2. A technical question arises with a pure fibre network in Australia. There are millions of POTS out there which rely on copper for power. It is not therefore practical to just rip out the copper and replace it with fibre in the same ducts. FttN makes sense for any incumbent telco with old cabling. FttH is fine for greenfields but we will have to do something pretty drastic to get FttH in established areas. What are your thoughts as to how this could be done without the huge cost of replacing all the connected telco powered handsets in the country.

Regards
John

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