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Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 17:44:28 +0900
Jim Troutman wrote:
However, with PON, only the provider with the largest share can win the initial competition, after which there is monopoly.
No. Most of the municipal proposals I see are open access, even with a PON design.
Private fiber operators are strongly motivated to deploy PON because PON is designed to make competitions impossible even if regulators forces the operators to do so, which is why PON is so popular. Muni fiber operators deploying PON because it is so pupular are just dumb stupid.
If the network is not a "one fiber per customer" design, then the muni network will own the entire GPON/XGS-PON infrastructure (fiber, splitters and lit electronics).
What if the muni infrastructure is plain PON with 1G ether switches? Where is the competition to improve the infrastructure, even though it is already "broadband"? Or, even if it is GPON with 10G switches, how can it be upgraded to 10GPON with 100G switches?
The ISP is just providing bits, customer service, billing, and maybe the inside install and CPE.
You miss "bps", which is essential to be "broadband". Masataka Ohta
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- RE: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections), (continued)
- RE: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Travis Garrison (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Baldur Norddahl (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Josh Luthman (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Masataka Ohta (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Baldur Norddahl (Jun 04)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Josh Luthman (Jun 04)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Masataka Ohta (Jun 04)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Jim Troutman (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Mark Tinka (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Mark Tinka (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Masataka Ohta (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Baldur Norddahl (Jun 03)
- Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections) Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG (Jun 03)