RE: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

[Nathan Eisenberg <nathan () atlasnetworks us>]

> I'd be interested to see what comments nanogers have on this piece. I'm not
> well enough read to critically evaluate the guy's assertions.

I'm not familiar with a GPON system that provides gigabit to every subscriber under 'high congestion'.    I do know of 
FTTN systems that can provide a lot more than 10/50 service to the end user (VDSL2 or ethernet over coax).  What I 
really want to know is why 'Active Ethernet' didn't even make the chart...

I got a chuckle out of this:
"Provo County’s iProvo was hoping for 10,000 subscribers by July 2006 with the assumption that 75% of those customers 
would subscribe to lucrative triple play services, but the reality was 10,000 customers in late 2007 with only 17% of 
those customers subscribing to triple play"

A 75% upsell rate to triple play packages seems ludicrous.  I can't think of any industry that sees an upsell rate of 
75% - can you (hell, I sold running shoes in high school, and the -target- upsell rate on 
shoestrings/socks/whatever-else was 15%).

Nathan