Re: FTTH for cable companies

[Florin Veres <florin () futurefreedom ro>]

Also, RFoG keeps the same STBs as old-school FTTN, and for bean counters
it's pretty hard to justify changing a LOT of STBs to IPTV ones.
On Oct 19, 2013 4:17 PM, "Mark Radabaugh" <mark () amplex net> wrote:

> I believe the difference is fairly negligible between RFoG and IPTV.
> RFoG allows the cable companies to leverage the existing RF head end while
> FTTH requires a IPTV head end.    IPTV is less familiar to most cable
> operators and requires new investment in facilities and skills.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 10/19/13 6:35 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
>
> > I need a reality check...
> >
> > For telcos, going from barely twisted copper pair to FTTH presents huge
> > incremental improvement. FTTN is basically a stop gap medium term
> > solution that is more pleasing to some beancounters.
> >
> > However, for a cable company, is there an advantage to deploy FTTH/GPON
> > to bring light originally destined to the neighbourhood node all the way
> > to the home and do away with coax ?
> >
> >  From what I have read, cablecos limit FTTH deployments to greenfields.
> >
> > Do they save much by replaciung the "node" with a simple optical
> > splitter which no longer limits how much upstream bandwidth is
> > retransmitted back to head end ?
> >
> > Will there be a point in the next 10 years where cable companies might
> > start to upgrade brownfields from coax to FTTH as some telcos have done ?
> >
> > While in Canada, FTTH deployment by telcos has been accompanied with
> > IPTV deployments on the data path (single wavelength), I hear that
> > Verizon has used twin wavelengths, on for GPON data, and one for RFoG
> > for TV signals. Would it be fair to state that FIOS is basically
> > identical to FTTH deployments by cable companies ?
> >
> > Do twin wavelength systems as deployed by Verizon end up costing far
> > more ? Or is the price difference mininal ?
> >
> > Any information/insight appreciated.
>
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> Mark Radabaugh
> Amplex
>
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