But the expensive/important part (fiber) is in place. If the gubment is
going to piss away tax dollars for unserved/underserved broadband, fiber
construction seems like a decent urinal.
XGS-PON can co-exist with GPON on the same fiber so eventual upgrades
are fairly easy. Do combo GPON/XGS-PON at the OLT out of the gate so a
CPE swap is the only thing require for an upgrade to a shared 10Gb
service. When XGS-PON isn't enough bandwidth for the 32 subscribers on
a PON, I'd rather replace equipment at either end than deal with another
construction project. Or do a 1:16 split.
Preparing for AE when doing the construction is probably worthwhile too
even if you only light for PON initially, or mix/match. The cost of
deploying high count fiber cable isn't that significant in the big
picture.
And why does fiber construction have to be so (artificially?) expensive.
Buy America will certainly make broadband deployments more expensive
but that's a good thing if it truly provides jobs and manufacturing
investment, but I have my doubts.
On 3/21/2025 2:04 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Is GPON good enough? That can only do gigabit and each port is 2.5G.
Should these projects require NGPON? Or maybe every location should
have AE so they can do 100G to start with.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com
<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Because in X years they won't be. With fiber they will be upon the
same Infrastructure.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 10:59 AM Josh Luthman
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>>
wrote:
But people that currently have fixed wireless of 100x20 are
sufficiently served? How does that make any sense?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
they should not allow fixed wireless, they never should have
allowed technology with a short shelf life
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM Adam Moffett
<dmmoff...@gmail.com <mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well....
https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/
post/3lkiye5n2dk2p <https://bsky.app/profile/
craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lkiye5n2dk2p>
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/seq3uoU1L5
<https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/seq3uoU1L5>
The director of BEAD quit. He says the previous rules
interpreted the bill to mean that only FTTH would meet
the performance and future-proofing requirements. He is
claiming that there are proposed rule changes that will
allow Starlink but not allow fixed wireless. I don't
know whether the changes /intentionally/ benefit
Starlink, but this guy is crying foul and felt strongly
enough about it to resign over it.
-Adam
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*From:* AF on behalf of Ken Hohhof
*Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2025 12:19 AM
*To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
*Subject:* [AFMUG] BEAD
I’m surprised BEAD hasn’t run into problems because the
E stands for Equity and DEI is now banned.
But if they eliminate the E, would it just be BAD?
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