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Technology Stocks : FTTH/FTTx/Metro Fiber
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To: The Phoenix who wrote (4)10/24/2000 3:12:35 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) of 13
 
phoenixdood, I ran into a company today that is planning an FTTH solution (greenfield single family dwellings is the main target market) that is planned to be a direct fiber run from each dwelling to the SP (a cable company) and then to a PON. Does this seem viable to you? I would have assumed a DWDM aggregation point at the pedestal (or green box as you say) and then a single fiber run to the SP.

It would seem that this would offer the opportunity to use cheaper transceivers for the direct distribution to the home and would also offer an opportunity for a phased deployment of an FTTH network, similar to what you described ... and to the curb (green box - where copper distribution takes over).

The company that I was talking to plans on using singlemode lasers all the way to the home.

Just a sanity check, since this seems like an unscalable topology to me.
JXM
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