On 28-Aug-2009, at 08:14, Peter Beckman wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In most areas of the country you can't get a permit to build a house
without electrical service (something solar and other off the grid
people
are fighting). Since it is so much more cost effective to install
with
new construction, why don't we have codes requring Cat5 drops in
every
room, and fiber to the home for all new construction?
And where does that fiber go to? Home runs from a central point in
the
development, so any provider can hook up to any house at the street?
Deregulation means those lines should be accessible to any company
for a
fee. How do you give House A Verizon and House B Cox, especially if
Cox
doesn't support fiber?
This sounds like some of the scenarios that Bill St Arnaud worked
through at CANARIE. I think they got as far as some test deployments
in or around Ottawa.
His general idea was that the homeowner owns conduit and fibre from
the house to a shared neighbourhood colo facility, and has rights to
some space in that facility.
The facility then acts as a junction point between houses in the
neighbourhood (if the neighbours want to connect) or as a place where
a service provider could build to in order to deliver service to the
homeowner.
It has been some time since I read the material, but my memory is that
the model was at its essence one of moving the provider/subscriber
demarcation point from the house to a central neighbourhood location.
Joe
