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Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?


From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:23:54 +1100


In message <511C3A4A.7050401 () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>, Masataka Ohta writes:
Edward Dore wrote:

Sadly, despite this being challenged with both the telecoms
regulator (Ofcom) and advertising watchdog (ASA), for some
reason both seem pretty happy with the utter farce that is
advertising BT/OpenReach's VDSL based Fibre To The Cabinet
and Virgin Media's Hybrid Fibre Coax networks as "fibre
optic broadband".

Sadly, it is impossible to say FTTC not "fiber optic broadband",
because it is "broadband" (at least with today's access speed)
with "fiber optic".

And by that argument pots dialup is fiber optic because the packets
went over a fiber optic link to get to the CO.

Mark
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