Dave, these have been some extraordinary stories to absorb all in one sitting, and a bit overwhelming to contemplate at one time, I'll have to admit.
It's interesting to note the differences in their make ups.
Clearworks seems to have come out of their incubator. What did you think of their approach using OpticalNetworks gear? I noticed that they are still using an RF format for delivering their video component.
Who is it now who has the proper set top box decodes to accept a digitally formatted video payload, and converts it to back to NTSC over coax for connecting to the TV set? Do you know? I believe I've seen this from GIC's NLVL, but I'm not sure.
In any event, I would think that such an all-digital approach over the pipe would be a much cleaner one going forward, than having to contend with RF as a tenant on the route. Such would be an ideal opportunity to begin video over IP, in fact.
Could this simply be a case of PP, or Paradigm Paralysis," as fellow poster Chris Mataka once cited in an article he posted in this thread, upstream (reply #97)? Or, do you suppose that there is some other reason behind this that I'm just not seeing?
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The excerpt on PP follows:
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Apes and Paradigm Paralysis
Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put
stairs under it. Before long, an ape will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the
banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the apes with cold water.
After a while, another ape makes an attempt with the same result---all the apes are
sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another ape tries to climb the stairs, the
other apes will try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one ape from the cage and replace it with a new
one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the
other apes attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to
climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five apes and replace it with a new one. The
newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the
punishment with enthusiasm.
Again, replace a third original ape with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs
and is attacked as well. Two of the four apes that beat him have no idea why they were
not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the
newest ape.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes, all the apes which have been sprayed
with cold water have been replaced.
Nevertheless, no ape ever again approaches the stairs. Why not?
Because that's the way it's always been around here.
***And that's how the ________ process works...***
(fill in the blank with your favorite bureaucracy, e.g., Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Congressional Budget, etc.)
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FTTH is becoming highly topical, not only here but in at least a half dozen other fora and mailing lists that I visit and participate in. I've been having some good dialog in the @home thread here in SI, but for some reason (actually we know what the reasons are, they're due to home's being blindfolded and hand-tied by their "partners"), the enthusiasm that I would have expected there, regarding FTTH, is all but extinct. Hopefully that will change over time, when Home begins to gain some freedoms.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
