*nods* I've got 50 - 75 GPON customers, all on 100+ symmetric, with the vast
majority on 200+. My 95th % on 4 OLT ports and all of those subs is like 185
megs.
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From: "Ken Hohhof" <khoh...@kwom.com>
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 10:29:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
At one time though Tarana was everyone’s darling because it would let them sell
100/20 plans and get all that federal money (to pay for the expensive
equipment). So Steve, are you saying I shouldn’t buy Tarana stock?
Oh, and one random thought. Just because you offer faster plans doesn’t mean
everyone subscribes to them. So it may be possible to overlay the FWA equipment
and keep 80% of it running for 10+ years. Kind of like going from GPON to
10GPON but you don’t necessarily change out the bulk of CPE.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 10:15 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
not at all, I'm saying new infrastructure as in new locations are required as
new iterations of minimums come out. satellite, being a planned obsolescence
with scheduled updates allows for the continuous forward path in the same
footprint.
I'm not saying fed dough should go there, I'm saying it shouldn't exist. but if
it's going anywhere that's not fiber, it shouldn't definetly not go to
terrestrial FW that won't have a physical footprint capable.
it definetly shouldn't be going to 14k access points for 2 customers since it
will never ROI before end of equipment life, and will require a new handout.
terrestrial FW has the shortest shelf life built into the plant lifespan
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 7:48 AM Adam Moffett < dmmoff...@gmail.com > wrote:
Steve,
If you're saying BEAD should help Starlink buy more/newer/better satellites
then I could at least see a rational argument for that, but those satellites
are only intended to have a 5-year lifespan, so I don't see how that's any
different than funding fixed wireless. And historically when they awarded
grants to satellite it was used to subsidize CPE installation. To me that's a
copout. It's not building infrastructure; it's just inflating numbers so they
can go on TV (or Xwitter) and say they provided broadband to twice as many
people as they actually did.
-Adam
From: AF on behalf of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 10:10 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
Satellite has a planned obsolescence so will maintain cyclical growth, but will
hit the same hurdles. Still a better placement of fed money than fixed
wireless, but not the same as fiber
On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM Ken Hohhof < khoh...@kwom.com > wrote:
OK, I see.
BTW, what would you say about satellite?
From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com > On Behalf Of Steve Jones
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2025 3:11 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < af@af.afmug.com >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
Can you meet the FCC minimums today, at the same distances as you could when
the minimums came in? Nope. You would have to get closer to the customer., that
means buildout. and when the minimum is inevitably 500 mb, youll buildout
again, and when its a gig, youll build out again, getting closer and closer and
closer to the customer each time.
Fiber, you just swap some electronics for the most part.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM Ken Hohhof < khoh...@kwom.com > wrote:
I don’t understand why fiber is just some electronics but wireless requires a
buildout. Aren’t they both just some electronics, but one requires installing a
long piece of glass, while the other just goes through the air? Or free space,
as in “free space loss”? The difference in my mind is that you don’t need the
FCC to sell you spectrum over glass.
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail
in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And
radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them
there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
― Albert Einstein
From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com > On Behalf Of Chuck
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2025 10:16 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Cc: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] BEAD
Some of the early multimode was monofilament fishing line. It was not glass.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 23, 2025, at 8:39 PM, Bill Prince < part15...@gmail.com > wrote:
Not really. Early versions of fiber were much larger diameter.
I worked for a company that had implemented fiber internally back in the 80s,
but could not use it when the fiber got thinner and none of the new connectors
would work on the old fat stuff.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 3/23/2025 5:51 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
fiber installed in the 80s is capable of ten gig. the infrastructure stays the
same as technology grows. when I started in wireless we could serve most
anybody with good capacity 15 to 20 miles out all day long. fiber is just some
electronics, wireless requires build outs. not a drop of tax dollar should go
to that
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 1:12 PM Josh Luthman < j...@imaginenetworksllc.com >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 > wrote:
Well....
https://bsky.app/profile/craigsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lkiye5n2dk2p
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?
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