Do we think when Tesla Optimus robots are mass produced in a few years, that some of the manual labor can be replaced with robots? That would drive down fiber construction cost considerably. Instead of 5 guys per drill crew, it could be 1-2 guys and the rest are robots.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 3:50 PM dbernardi <dberna...@zitomedia.net> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *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? > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com <http:// > > af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > > > -- > > AF mailing list > > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com <http:// > > af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com> > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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