Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Scott Helms wrote:

> > > Numbers?  Examples?

> > Greenfield SS and PON deployment costs in Japan was already shown.

> Japan has one of the highest population densities of major economies in the

The examples are in rural area and I already stated population
density in English.

> > No, the only reason to insist on PON is to make L1 unbundling
> > not feasible.

> I don't know what conspiracy theory you're ascribing to here, but this is
> incorrect.

PON being more expensive than SS, that is the only explanation.

> > No, SS is cheaper than PON without exception.

> Prove it.

See above or below.

> > If the initial density of subscribers is high, SS is fine.
> >
> > If it is not, initially, most electric equipment, OE port,
> > fibers, splitters and a large closures containing the splitters
> > of PON can not be shared by two or more subscribers, which means
> > PON incurs much more material and labor cost for each initial
> > subscriber than SS.

                                         Masataka Ohta