Management has asked us why we can't do RF overlay on our AE system. :) We've had to explain a few times why that would be too expensive even if it were available because of the high cost of the amps/splitters/combiners to insert 1550nm onto every AE fiber.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Frank Bulk (iname.com) <frnk...@iname.com>wrote: > What's missing in this dialogue is the video component of an offering. > Many customers like a triple (or quad) play because the price points are > reasonable comparable to getting unbundled pricing from more than one > provider, and they have just throat to choke and bill to pay. > > But few IP TV providers will claim good profitability. And I don't > believe any vendor has ActiveE and RFoG going down one strand. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:01 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> > > <snip> > > > A good layer 2 deployment can support DHCP or PPPoE and thus be > > compatible with incumbents infrastructure. However, a good layer2 > > deployment won't have "RFoG" support and will prefer IPTV over the data > > channel (the australian model supports multicast). So cable companies > > without IPTV services may be at a disadvantage. > > I think this depends on what handoffs my TE can provide at the customer > prem. > > > In Canada, Rogers (cableco) has announced that they plan to go all > > IPTV instead of conventional TV channels. > > Well, the MythTV people will be happy to hear that. > > Or they would, if the content people would quit holding a gun to the > heads of the transport people. > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274 > > > > >
