On 23/03/2012, at 4:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > As you might imagine, I am a fairly strong proponent of muni layer 1 -- > or even layer 2, where the municipality supplies (matching) ONTs, and > services have to fit over GigE -- fiber delivery of high-speed data > service. > > I believe Google agrees with me. :-)
And the country of Australia agrees with you (at least more than half of it). The current nature of FTTH makes it hard to do a layer 1-only service and the NBN has opted to provide layer 2 hand-off at POI's (points of interconnect) around Australia. jy
