Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

I thought JRA was asking about the upstream cost. 

Owen


> On Aug 2, 2014, at 0:43, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
>
> > On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:17:24 PM Jay Ashworth wrote: 
> >
> > So we'll assume we could get 4 for 22k to make the
> > arithmetic easy, and that means if we can put 44 people
> > on that, that the MRC cost is 500 dollars a month for a
> > gigabit. That is clearly not consumer pricing. Was
> > consumer pricing the assertion?
>
> I think Owen's pricing is based on 10Gbps router ports 
> (Owen, correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> This is not the only way to sell 10Gbps services.
>
> Having said that, in context of home broadband, I was 
> referring to AN's (Access Nodes), particularly based on 
> Active-E (you don't generally place consumer customers 
> directly on to 10Gbps router ports).
>
> The 10Gbps ports on an Active-E AN are in the same 1U 
> chassis as the 44x Gig-E ports. And depending on how many 
> you buy from vendors for your Access network, you can get 
> pretty decent deals with good return if you get great uptake 
> and have a sweet price point.
>
> Mark.