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Re: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 22:02:42 -0500
This has been a fascinating discussion :) While we don't quite qualify as a small city, we do have quite a dispersion of coverage across our residence halls and general campus. There is an ongoing RFP process to build out our own CATV distribution (or more generally, to avoid the resident CATV provider charge monopoly). Initial competitors included incumbent cable (largely RF coax), new providers (also RF coax), and content-only providers (either assuming we do distribution over our fiber, or add another distribution component), to IPTV solutions (using existing network). IPTV requires a "very co-operative" multicast distribution, which we currently do not have (not exclusive vendor gear end-to-end); it needs to be designed that way from the beginning as opposed to bolted onto the end. RF CATV (or HFC distribution) requires some unique fiber plant... notably AFC terminations as opposed to the UPCs we have for data. And you have to consider one-way content provider network, versus two-way feedback (and the associated set-top box complications we're trying to avoid). And throw in the phone for the other "triple play" component, and you're generally talking PoE[+]. Even in a captive audience, the possibilities are challenging :) Jeff
Current thread:
- RE: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband, (continued)
- RE: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Frank Bulk (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Scott Helms (Feb 04)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jean-Francois Mezei (Feb 04)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Scott Helms (Feb 04)
- RE: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Frank Bulk (Feb 09)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Leo Bicknell (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Scott Helms (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jason Baugher (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jason Baugher (Feb 03)
- Re: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jeff Kell (Feb 02)
- Re: Fwd: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Tim Jackson (Feb 02)
- RE: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Frank Bulk (Feb 02)
- RE: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Warren Bailey (Feb 02)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Scott Helms (Feb 03)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Tim Jackson (Feb 02)
- Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jay Ashworth (Feb 02)
- Re: Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband Brandon Ross (Feb 02)
- Re: Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband Jay Ashworth (Feb 02)