GNG News Guy
06-18-2008, 03:28 PM
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Buried beneath this morning's announcement of faster speeds (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/50Mbps-2020Mbps-FiOS-Tiers-Hit-All-Markets-95375) was an interesting comment by Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1737472320080617). According to Wegleitner, Verizon could at some point steer away from fiber to the home (FTTH) and explore fiber to the node (FTTN) to save money in deploying FiOS service to more rural Americans. Companies like AT&T and Qwest have taken major heat for trying to milk aging copper networks instead of embracing pure fiber. And now Verizon appears poised to join them."What we'd look for is another approach to FTTP," Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner told Reuters on the sidelines of the NXTcomm telecommunications industry conference in Las Vegas, when asked about plans for FiOS beyond 2010. Wegleitner said he sees room to expand FiOS after 2010 to another 18 million users, but shifting away from FTTP could help expand high-speed Internet and video into sparsely populated areas where it is too expensive to build out an all-fiber network.
I suppose if you're a rural Verizon customer (or one who lives in a smaller, less profitable city), getting VDSL or FTTN technology is better than being sold off (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/92631) to a company that can't afford to serve you. As I recently noted, one Vermont fiber pioneer claims that deploying rural fiber is in fact economical (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94019), just not economical enough for Verizon shareholders.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Considers-Fiber-to-the-Node-FiOS-95383)
Buried beneath this morning's announcement of faster speeds (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/50Mbps-2020Mbps-FiOS-Tiers-Hit-All-Markets-95375) was an interesting comment by Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner to Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1737472320080617). According to Wegleitner, Verizon could at some point steer away from fiber to the home (FTTH) and explore fiber to the node (FTTN) to save money in deploying FiOS service to more rural Americans. Companies like AT&T and Qwest have taken major heat for trying to milk aging copper networks instead of embracing pure fiber. And now Verizon appears poised to join them."What we'd look for is another approach to FTTP," Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner told Reuters on the sidelines of the NXTcomm telecommunications industry conference in Las Vegas, when asked about plans for FiOS beyond 2010. Wegleitner said he sees room to expand FiOS after 2010 to another 18 million users, but shifting away from FTTP could help expand high-speed Internet and video into sparsely populated areas where it is too expensive to build out an all-fiber network.
I suppose if you're a rural Verizon customer (or one who lives in a smaller, less profitable city), getting VDSL or FTTN technology is better than being sold off (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/92631) to a company that can't afford to serve you. As I recently noted, one Vermont fiber pioneer claims that deploying rural fiber is in fact economical (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/94019), just not economical enough for Verizon shareholders.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Considers-Fiber-to-the-Node-FiOS-95383)