Re: FTTH for cable companies

[Phil Bedard <bedard.phil () gmail com>]

That's no different than what MSOs are deploying as well.  Using things
like DSG the STB is using IP these days to communicate with application
servers, VoD, etc. Really the same as your VZW example, the STB uses
DOCSIS for OOB signalling instead of straight RF.


PON can use a RF video overlay or not, the PON standards have stayed away
from using 1550-1560nm for that reason, but yes it's all passively muxed.

Phil 

On 10/19/13 1:48 PM, "ML" <ml () kenweb org> wrote:

> On 10/19/2013 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.
>
> Doing RFoG forward path is simple.  The reverse path isn't.  VZ has an
> IP reverse path for VOD asset purchases and keeping their STBs in
> contact with whatever element management they use.
> VZ STBs depend on the the local VZ provided CPE as the reverse path for
> communication.
>
> It's been a while since I've looked at a PON deployment but I believe
> the xPON waves are passively muxed with an EDFA amplified video wave and
> then sent to the outside plant.